{"id":2171264,"date":"2024-02-08T13:43:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T18:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zelensky-fires-top-military-commander-as-he-looks-to-reset-struggling-war-effort\/"},"modified":"2024-02-08T13:43:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T18:43:02","slug":"zelensky-fires-top-military-commander-as-he-looks-to-reset-struggling-war-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zelensky-fires-top-military-commander-as-he-looks-to-reset-struggling-war-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky Fires Top Military Commander As He Looks To \u2018Reset\u2019 Struggling War Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fzelensky-fires-top-military-commander-as-he-looks-to-reset-struggling-war-effort%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2171264&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed the country\u2019s chief military commander on Thursday, just days after hinting at the shakeup as he looks to \u201creset\u201d the Ukrainian military\u2019s struggling war effort against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky first announced his decision to fire General Valerii Zaluzhnyi in a Telegram post, writing the two met and \u201cdiscussed what kind of renewal the Armed Forces of Ukraine need,\u201d CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/02\/08\/europe\/zaluzhnyi-ukraine-military-chief-dismissed-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe time for such a renewal is now,\u201d Zelensky said.<\/p>\n<p>In his own post on Telegram, Zaluzhnyi added, \u201cThe tasks of 2022 are different from those of 2024. Therefore, everyone must change and adapt to the new realities as well. [We] have just met with the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. It was an important and serious conversation. It was decided that we need to change our approaches and strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/05\/world\/europe\/zelensky-ukraine-war.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hinted<\/a> at the massive shakeup to his country\u2019s military earlier this week, saying that \u201ca reset\u201d and \u201cnew beginning\u201d were necessary to renew Ukraine\u2019s war effort against a Russian army that recently launched another offensive. The Ukrainian military is struggling with a weakened force as the war nears the two-year mark later this month. Ukrainian forces are struggling to push back the renewed Russian push as it faces dwindling numbers of ammunition and troops, The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/05\/world\/europe\/zelensky-ukraine-war.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>General Zaluzhnyi, a popular figure in the country, said in a November interview with The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/europe\/2023\/11\/01\/ukraines-commander-in-chief-on-the-breakthrough-he-needs-to-beat-russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Economist<\/a> that the war had reached a \u201cstalemate,\u201d warning \u201cthere will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough.\u201d Zaluzhnyi\u2019s comments angered Zelensky\u2019s office, which said that such criticism only helped Russia. The general also slammed Zelensky for his hesitancy to up the number of draftees to 500,000, which Zaluzhnyi said was necessary \u201cto improve the manpower levels of our armed forces,\u201d CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p>The military shakeup is yet another setback for Ukraine\u2019s military leadership. Last August, Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/zelensky-fires-all-military-enlistment-office-chiefs-over-corruption-allegations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fired<\/a> every single head of the country\u2019s regional military enlistment offices over allegations of abuse of power, fraud, and corruption. Earlier in 2023, another one of Ukraine\u2019s top generals was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/02\/27\/zelensky-fires-top-ukrainian-military-commander\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dismissed,<\/a> and numerous officials were fired or resigned after they were hit with allegations of corruption.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1707492145383000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1VM6nEedTXWtCR6YhVPILN\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Zaluzhnyi\u2019s firing comes as Zelensky hopes for another aid package from the U.S. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill seek to hash out a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/02\/07\/congress\/gop-senators-agonize-on-foreign-aid-00140119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deal<\/a> to send support to Ukraine and Israel. President Joe Biden has urged Congress to pass a bipartisan bill attaching aid to Ukraine and Israel alongside funding to address the border crisis, but Republican leaders in the House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/house-republicans-shoot-down-senate-border-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shot down<\/a> the proposal, saying that it \u201cfails in every policy area needed to secure our border and would actually incentivize more illegal immigration.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed the country\u2019s chief military commander on Thursday, just days after hinting at the shakeup as he looks to \u201creset\u201d the Ukrainian military\u2019s struggling war effort against Russia. Zelensky first announced his decision to fire General Valerii Zaluzhnyi in a Telegram post, writing the two met and \u201cdiscussed what kind of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":2171265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/02\/GettyImages-1962974343-scaled-e1707414426897.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2171264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/02\/GettyImages-1962974343-scaled-e1707414426897.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2171264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2171265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}