Russia vs Ukraine- Zelensky Dismisses Top Generals
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has stripped two top Ukrainian generals of their ranks, calling them “antiheroes”.
THECONSCIENCEng gathered that Zelensky disclosed this in his nightly address posted to social media on Thursday night.
He said “Today another decision was made regarding antiheroes. Now I do not have time to deal with all the traitors. But gradually they will all be punished.
“The generals — former chief of the Main Department of Internal Security of the Security Service of Ukraine, Naumov Andriy Olehovych, and the former head of the Office of the Security Service of Ukraine in the Kherson region, Kryvoruchko Serhiy Oleksandrovych — have been stripped of their rank.
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“Those servicemen among senior officers who have not decided where their homeland is, who violate the military oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people as regards (to) the protection of our state, its freedom and independence, will inevitably be deprived of senior military ranks. Random generals don’t belong here!” Zelensky.
Meanwhile Russian forces on Thursday confiscated 14 tons of humanitarian aid from buses bound for Melitopol in southern Ukraine.
According to the Ukrainian minister of reintegration, Iryna Vereshchuk, the food and medication was loaded on 12 buses and was intercepted off temporarily occupied territories.
“This is the price for the agreed corridors and for the Red Cross’ guarantees that the corridors will be provided and working,” Vereshchuk said. “We are negotiating for the buses to be returned and for the Melitopol residents tomorrow to evacuate using these buses.”
Vereshchuk added that 1,458 people reached Zaporizhzhia in their own cars on Thursday, with 631 of them escaping the besieged city of Mariupol and 827 coming from Berdiansk, Enerhodar, Melitopol, Polohy, Huliapole and Vasylivka in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Russian forces also blocked 45 buses going to Berdiansk on Thursday en route to Mariupol, she added.
Russia will reopen the evacuation corridor from Mariupol to Zaporizhzhia on Friday at the request of French and German leaders, the Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday