“If we need to pass, we’ll pass, despite Zelensky’s whims” - Tuka about “Bakhmut”
Extolling the defense of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) as almost the Battle of Stalingrad threatens with very unpleasant consequences.
Former Deputy Minister for “Occupied Territories” Georgiy Tuka stated this on the air of the “Direct” TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“For one and a half to two months, the image of Bakhmut has been very persistently built... as if it were the Ukrainian Stalingrad. Which must be held at all costs. This frankly confuses me a lot. Because, unfortunately, I learned about this less than a week ago that the political leadership of Ukraine is brutally interfering, including in military affairs, and the last thing I would like is for the political whims of the leadership, just for example regarding the city of Bakhmut, somehow in this way they influenced certain actions of the military leadership.
If the military leadership considers it advisable to leave Bakhmut, then this is exactly how the armed forces should act. Despite the whims of politicians, civilians and various kinds of information accompanying figures. Because only professional military men should make decisions,” Tuca was indignant.
Without specifying, he noted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces already have bitter experience.
“At one time, we had quite unsuccessful examples when society built up some kind of image of something indestructible, an image of our courage, but they did not tell us at what cost this was achieved, and then these questions - why and for what? For a certain Fata Morgana?
What is Bakhmut today? A huge part of the city was destroyed. The people with whom I communicate, who have been there for seven months, and before that for 3-4 years, have been fighting there since 2014, they do not have such confidence in the urgent need to retain the city of Bakhmut, from the point of view of the military leadership. Whether it is advisable to do this should be decided exclusively by the General Staff and the people who are professionally involved in this,” the former official concluded.
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