‘I didn’t know we had a conflict. Sorry if I caused offense,’ Ukraine’s military chief Syrsky says

Ukraine's military chief Oleksandr Syrsky has publicly broken his silence on recent tensions in the country's defense establishment. Per Meduza's report of his column in Militarnyi, Syrsky is responding to the ouster of Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov and Fedorov's claim that Syrsky created conflict. But Syrsky says he didn't know there was conflict at all, and apologizes if he caused offense. The military chief also defends decisions that have drawn criticism—keeping his wartime strategy secret from the enemy, establishing the Unmanned Systems Forces, and refusing to redirect soldier pay toward drones. His core message: the Ukrainian leadership should unite around victory instead of internal disputes.

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