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Ukraine to fire all regional military recruitment chiefs (www.reuters.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1338851

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (28 children)

That's not a good sign for Ukraine in what is an attrition war. Even their own military is making plans to smuggle their men out if the country because they don't want to send them to the death trap that is the heavily reinforced WW1 like frontlines. And Zelensky's response is just to fire and try replace the people doing that, instead of looking as to why that is happening. If the counter offensive tactics are so dire that your own military is doing corruption to avoid sending men to the front, maybe that needs reassessment.

Zelenskiy said a state investigation into centres across Ukraine had exposed abuses by officials ranging from illegal enrichment to transporting draft-eligible men across the border despite a wartime ban on them leaving the country.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (27 children)

I don't think you're necessarily wrong, and I'm certainly no expert. However, I do know that Ukraine has long struggled with corruption, and has been making slow progress over the past couple of decades. And they will always have (there are always, in any conflict) a certain level of partisanship in their own ranks.

I've been mildly concerned about what could happen after the invasion; assuming Ukraine is successful, Zelenskyy's popularity could make it easy for him to transition into a dictatorship. However, so far I've seen little to indicate that he's anything other than a sincere, effective, and passionate leader -- I like the guy, and I'm inclined to trust his judgement. He's done unexpectedly well so far, and Ukraine under his leadership has been acting up to the highest ethical ideals of the EU.

Maybe Ukraine leadership is making a mistake, but maybe they know something us armchair Generals don't.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

has been making slow progress over the past couple of decades

Zelensky was literally in the Pandora Papers lmao

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

By that measure, Xi is also implicated

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No?

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/10/4/chinese-politician-in-pandora-papers-looked-to-trade-us-stocks

China’s only politician to be named in a sprawling investigation of millions of confidential financial documents known as the Pandora Papers is a female entrepreneur who the report says set up an offshore firm to trade U.S. stocks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's overly amplified by liberal propagandists, but there's at least enough of a connection to make a note of

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35962326

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Relatives" is a very purposely vague term to use

I have so many relatives that I've never met or only met less than 3 times

If the connections were close relatives even to first degree cousins, they would've said so

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