Is Zelensky getting rid of the competition?
While the eyes of the world are fixated on US moves in Venezuela or Greenland, and on the popular uprising in Iran, the war in Ukraine is unfolding, brutal as ever.
But, getting more exposure than the actual movements in the ground, with Russian forces making gains in the southern Zaporozhie region, it’s the internal machinations of the Kiev regime that is being talked about.
We have reported here on TGP about the removal of the two most powerful directors of intelligence in Ukraine: SBU’s Vasily Malyuk and Kyrylo Budanov from the military intel agency GUR.
The two men were credited with successful operations and countless assassinations.
Their ousting is part of leader Volodymyr Zelensky’s largest intelligence reshuffle of the war.
But the reaction to the changes has been mixed at best.
The New York Times reported:
“Critics say the shake-up risks disrupting operations already underway and may have been made in part for political reasons.
’I see it as removing two competent leaders’, said Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, a former director of the SBU, Ukraine’s domestic intelligence agency, and now a member of Parliament in the political opposition. ‘During the war, my suggestion would be to keep, not shake up, the leadership’. I see nothing good for the security of the country and for special operations.”
Hellbound and Down 