Oleksandr Syrskyi
Former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of UkraineWikipedia
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Oct 15, 2026
Jerome StarkeyHOST
There are three things we're going to look at today.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
Firstly, the decision to sack u- the commander of Ukraine's Armed Forces, General Syrskyi.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
Secondly, the EU's latest package of sanctions, and finally, the prospect that peace talks could be revived.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
President Zelensky has sacked General Oleksandr Syrskyi and replaced him with a much younger commander, General Mikhail Drapaty.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
The decision to sack Syrskyi is a response to widespread protests in Ukraine, and those protests were triggered as a result of Zelensky's decision to sack the Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
Fedorov had fallen out with Syrskyi.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
As a result, their arguments were being elevated to the president.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
The president decided to solve this by sacking Fedorov.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
It allowed the Ministry of Defense to get a better handle on who was doing what, and it rewarded those soldiers for doing it.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
Fedorov has, however, had a major falling out with General Oleksandr Syrskyi, who, uh, about... who's about to turn 61, nearly twice his age.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
A Soviet-trained officer who has been criticized in the past for being sort of too imbued with that Soviet style of top-down rigid command.
Jerome StarkeyHOST
Uh, Syrskyi, um, grew up in Kharkiv, but he trained, uh...
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
So Ukraine saying that, uh, they have stabilized their front line.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
This is from the former commander-in-chief who was very publicly sacked a few months ago, General Oleksandr Syrskyi.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
So his first comments since he was sacked, he says that in fact, Ukraine is breaking Russia's ability to advance by killing so many of its men.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
Of course, that doesn't stop the missiles and the drones, if this is true anyway.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
I hope I can read them properly.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
Uh, Ukraine has stabilized the front line is one claim by a former commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, who famously was sacked very publicly a few months ago by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and he's come back with his first comments since his sacking.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
And he has talked about how Moscow's overall losses in the war are six times higher than Ukraine's.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
I think this, this is...
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
I hope I can read them properly.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
Ukraine has stabilized the front line, is one claim, by a former commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces, General Oleksandr Sirski.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
He famously was sacked very publicly a few months ago by Volodymyr Zelensky.
Adam GilchristCORRESPONDENT
And he's come back with his first comments since his sacking.
Ankur DesaiHOST
Hugh Schofield in Paris.
Ankur DesaiHOST
While the Ukrainian President Zelensky is preparing his people for another hard winter, the former commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, says the Russian forces have suffered too many losses to be able to advance any further.
Ankur DesaiHOST
General Syrskyi was in charge of the Ukrainian army until his tense relations with the Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov forced President Zelensky to dismiss them both last summer.
Ankur DesaiHOST
He told our correspondent Abdul Jalil Abdul Rasulov that the Ukrainian army had managed to stabilize the front line.
Rebecca KesbyHOST
Well, I'm sure you'll update us if there are any developments.
Rebecca KesbyHOST
Um, I know you've been speaking to Ukraine's former top general, haven't you? Uh, Oleksandr Syrskyi.
Rebecca KesbyHOST
What's he been telling you?
Abdoul Jalil Abdoul RasulovCORRESPONDENT
Well, Oleksandr Syrskyi is the former commander-in-chief of Ukraine, so he was in charge of the Ukrainian army for more than two years.
Abdoul Jalil Abdoul RasulovCORRESPONDENT
He was known for his, uh, part of liberating or of defending Kyiv and also liberating the Kharkiv region in 2022.
Abdoul Jalil Abdoul RasulovCORRESPONDENT
But due to his tensions with then Defense Minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, President Zelensky, uh, was basically forced to sack them both.
Mykola BielieskovGUEST
They are not very combative.
Mykola BielieskovGUEST
And it's good that they get along because institutional latent conflict that led to conflict between, uh, Fedorov and Syrskyi is still there.
Mykola BielieskovGUEST
So their, like, prerogatives is not properly delineated.
Mykola BielieskovGUEST
Khmara mostly take care for, like, grand vision of the war while delegate a lot of authorities for his deputies, and most of his deputies are from the previous team to ensure the smooth succession process.
Mykola BielieskovGUEST
So this is my biggest fear, that no matter how good you are, since you are not able to deliver a miracle of, like, ending war on Ukraine in terms of short order of time, you soon would turn from being welcomed and favored to being one who is highly criticized.
Dominic NichollsHOST
Interesting.
Dominic NichollsHOST
So you say that even with the tensions between Syrskyi and Fedorov, they may still be there, some of this old school, new school, new way of doing things.
Dominic NichollsHOST
Interesting.
JackieGUEST
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JackieGUEST
Syrskyi left, and all this other stuff, and there's, there's kind of reasons why our unit wasn't in charge of the fortress belt fight earlier this year.
JackieGUEST
But w- stars have aligned, and we are now in charge of the fortress belt.
JackieGUEST
Late, but we are in charge.
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