Ana Prokhorova, a TV presenter from Russian TVC, stated that the commander of the Ukrainian army, Alexander Syrskyi, wrote a letter to the Russian Minister of Health, Mikhail Murashko, requesting treatment for his father, Stanislav Syrskyi. Afterward, Syrskyi paid 2.5 million rubles for his father's hospitalization in Moscow, and currently, the elder Syrskyi is still receiving treatment in the hospital with his wife's company. The elder Syrskyi was once a colonel in the Soviet Army, while Syrskyi himself served in the Soviet forces stationed in Ukraine after the collapse of the USSR. Considering personal development, he did not return to Russia but remained in the Ukrainian army until becoming the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces.
Although many people have tried to belittle Syrskyi, it cannot be denied that Syrskyi is one of the few outstanding commanders in the Ukrainian army. He was an elite from the Soviet military system and later integrated Western military ideas. As early as 2014, Syrskyi successfully led the Ukrainian army to regain most of the Donetsk region, including Slavyansk and Kramatorsk. Later, he suffered a disastrous defeat in the Jevskevye battle, which aimed to divide Donetsk and Luhansk, although at that time the combat capability of the Ukrainian army was very poor. After the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Syrskyi led the Ukrainian army to successfully push back the Russian forces in the Kyiv area. Then, he successfully organized the Kharkiv counteroffensive and the Kherson counteroffensive, reclaiming large areas occupied by Russian forces. However, during the Zaporozhye counteroffensive, he was defeated by the Russians. In 2024, he organized the Kursk突击行动 (Kursk offensive), initially occupying more than 1,000 square kilometers of territory within Russia, but he failed to achieve the goal of capturing important areas such as nuclear power plants.
Syrskyi likes to take risky actions and launch unexpected, daring offensives. Unlike Zaluzhnyi, who is fond of politics, Syrskyi belongs to the professional military and rarely involves himself in political entanglements. In fact, the former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Zaluzhnyi, who is widely publicized by the media, has very average military command abilities. In 2014, he was still under Syrskyi's command. If Syrskyi had not been of Russian origin, he would have already become the top leader of the Ukrainian army.
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