Former CIA analyst’s warning to Zelensky

According to the report of Fars International News Agency, “George Beebe”, the former director of the Russia Affairs Analysis Department of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), warned “Volodymyr Zelensky”, the President of Ukraine, about his recent decision to expel ” Valery Zalogeny” from the command of the country’s armed forces “follows the possibility of creating a bigger political crisis in Ukraine”, especially considering Zalogeny’s popularity.

Zelensky last Thursday after speculations Farad announced in the media that Zalogeny was removed from the command of the Ukrainian army and Oleksandr Sirsky, who served as the commander of the army’s ground forces since 2019, replaced Zalogeny.

In the months In the past, various reports have been published about the increased tension in the relationship between Zelenskyi and Zalogheny, especially over the failure of the Ukrainian army’s summer counteroffensive against Russia. These tensions became clear when in November, in an interview with “Economist” magazine, Zalogheny admitted that the summer counteroffensive of the Ukrainian army was not successful and said that the war in this country has reached a “deadlock”, but Zelensky rejected his assessment a few days later. Kurd.

George Beebe, who also served as a former advisor to former US Vice President Dick Cheney on Russian affairs from 2002 to 2004, said in an interview with “Newsweek” magazine: “Sacking the top commander of the army during wartime is a sign of failure. Governments do this when they are losing a war rather than winning it.”

A survey conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology in December found that Ukrainians’ trust in Zelensky has dropped from 84 percent at the end of 2022 to 62 percent a year later.

A former CIA analyst told Newsweek: “Zelensky’s action is full of It is a risk. No new commander for Ukraine’s military and no new package of military aid to the country can negate the difficult truth that Ukraine’s military lacks the manpower, weapons, and economic capacity to sustain a protracted war of attrition against Russia.

According to the “Newsweek” publication, “Konstantin Skorkin”, an independent researcher of Donbas region affairs at the “Carnegie” institute, also warned that Zelensky took a big risk by changing the commander of the Ukrainian army.

Skorkin said in an article published on Saturday: “Never before has Zelensky so blatantly defied the public consensus in order to preserve his political life.”

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