MOSCOW, July 22. /TASS/. Vladimir Zelensky appointed Mikhail Drapaty as the Ukrainian armed forces’ commander-in-chief to appease an unhappy populace, while for Russia, this move won't change the course of the special military operation, Federation Council member from the Kherson Region Igor Kastyukevich told TASS.
He went on to say that Russia will continue to liberate territories from the Kiev regime’s power.
Zelensky said earlier that he had appointed Drapaty as the new commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces to replace Alexander Syrsky amid week-long protests calling for his axing.
"No matter how you change the order, the bottom line remains the same. One fascist has been replaced with another, because otherwise the citizens would have staged a ‘Maidan’ uprising, something the West can't handle right now. So, Zelensky was ordered to quell dissent by shaking up the first string. Fort Russia, this reshuffle will not change anything," said Kastyukevich.
In the view of the Federation Council member, Drapaty is a war criminal, same as the sacked Syrsky. "All war criminals in the ranks of the Ukrainian armed forces complicit in strikes on and genocide of civilians in Donbass, Novorossiya, Kursk, Belgorod, Bryansk, and other regions of Russia, as well as in attacks on schools, hospitals, and ambulances, must be liquidated together with the Russophobic ideology.
