Ukraine Blog 64 – Barbarians
Dear friends, family and colleagues, It has been a while. In part because I was occupied with other stuff, in part because of a lack of data and in part because it was not really clear on where to put the focus. A lot of stuff is happening in the world. I was first thinking about an update on Sudan, which is quickly but silently emerging as the main front against Russia in Africa. However, a lot is happening in Ukraine that we return to this country where we happen to learn so much about in the past three years. A lot of high profile events have happened, but they become footnotes in the main story that all started with the replacement of Ukraine’s iron general Valerii Zaluzhnyi with Oleksandr Syrskyi. The whole milblog community, including myself, were quite alarmed by this. Personally I really liked Zaluzhnyi’s pragmatic approach and willingness to try new approaches on the battlefield. He was the first Ukrainian commander in chief without a Soviet Red Army background. Syr...