"Deadest Tasks" and "Stupid Losses." That the Scandalous Report of the Shirshin Combat Refers to the Crisis in the U.S.A.

In the Ukrainian armed forces, a new scandal occurred: the commander of the 47th separate Mechanized Brigade, Magura Alexander Shirshin, submitted a report to the management on his release and simultaneously wrote a post on Facebook, in which he stated that he had received from the leadership the "deadest tasks" that had resulted in "dumble loss of human life". The 47th Brigade of Magura U.S.U.S. since the fall of the 2024 war in the Kursk regio…

On May 16, the commander of the 47th battalion of the separate mechanized brigade “Magura” Alexander Shirshin filed a report on the dismissal. In his post, he explained this decision by disagreement with the approaches of the command - according to him, orders lead to losses among personnel. Shirshin added that the unit has a fear of senior management, and the real state of affairs on the front is far from how the country's leadership sees it. T…

“All they are capable of is reprimands, investigations, imposition of punishments. Everyone is going to hell,” he wrote. By Olena Goncharova. The Kyiv Independent, May 17, 2025 Oleksandr Shyrshyn, battalion commander of the 47th separate mechanized brigade, has submitted his resignation, sharply criticizing Ukraine’s military leadership for what he described as senseless orders and unnecessary losses. “I have never been given more stupid goals t…