The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) must change their management approaches, with the main tasks being to reduce bureaucracy and "shorten the distance" from the officer to the soldier, President Volodymyr Zelensky said at the "Grain from Ukraine" international conference dedicated to food security. His words are quoted by c. "Suspension".
"The officer must see the soldier. "A general who has not been in the trenches is not a general for me, despite the experience," he said. - The generals must be in the trenches. Such is war.
Zelensky called the reduction of bureaucracy in the army the main task of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Sirsky at the moment and emphasized that "the morale of the army is the most important".
"If the transition to the "corps-brigade" system, which they [the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine] are proposing to date, will reduce this distance from the general to the soldier, if the bureaucracy is reduced, let them do it," concluded the Ukrainian president .
A day earlier "Suppression" with reference to sources in the Ukrainian General Staff announced that by the end of November, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will present a reform concept, which implies a transition to the "corps-brigade" system.
In recent months, Zelensky and the Ukrainian General Staff described the situation along the entire front line as difficult. After the Ukrainian Armed Forces invaded the Kursk region on August 6, the Russian Ministry of Defense said it was stepping up its offensive in Donbass.
Since then, the ministry has reported control over a number of settlements, including the town of Ugledar in the DPR. At the beginning of the year, Russian troops took full control of the Avdeevka region.
Syrsky admitted that the purpose of the Kursk operation was to divert Russian forces from the Pokrov direction, but this did not happen.