President Vlodomyr Zelensky announced the dismissal of the Ukranian army top chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi in the biggest military reshuffle since the on start of the war with Russian on 24th Feburary after a meeting that was held in the country's Kyiv capital.
The move comes after growing tensions between the president and his general due to the much failed counter offensive that was launched in June last year with Ukraine facing renewed Russian onslaught, shortage of ammuntion and with aid halted in the U.S Congress.
Zelensky appointed the commander of the land forces Oleksandr Syrski who has been holding the position since 2019.
The swirl of rumours surrounding the dismissal of Valerii started last week when he was called to a private meeting in the presidential office though the rumours were dismissed only to be confirmed on Thursday.
Zaluzhnyi, who had been appointed the head of the Ukraine military was offered a position which he declined to take unto rising fears he may later turn up to challenge the Zelensky for the presidentship.
The differences between the two men had been simmering for months but appeared to grow wider towards the end of last year when Zaluzhnyi in a long esay said the war with Russia had reached a stalemate humping criticism from Zelensky saying such comments only motivated the Russians.
" There will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough but instead an equilibrium of devaststing losses and destruction", the General is quoted to have said in the 13 page essay.
The two leaders had most recently crashed over the much needed mobilisation effort with the General stating that over a half million draftees were required.
Zelensky dismissed these claims saying that the topic was a very sensitive issue and that he needed to hear out more arguements in favour inorder to approve the move.
Last week, General Zaluzhnyi privately wrote to CNN expressing his frustration over the country's institution's failure to improve the man power levels without use if unpopular measures.
Such remarks wouldn't be expected of a man very much reluctant to speak publicly.
