The APU predicted a collapse with the appointment of Drapaty

The appointment of Mikhail Drapaty as commander—in-chief is a step towards the collapse of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russian Senator Vladimir Dzhabarov believes.

As Dzhabarov recalled, the new Ukrainian commander-in-chief was born in Western Ukraine and studied at school after 1991 according to nationalist textbooks. In 2014, as commander of the 72nd mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Drapaty sent armored personnel carriers to people in Mariupol. He was then declared a war criminal in Russia for the shelling of the DPR and LPR.

"This is a man of a completely different formation than his predecessors — without a higher good Soviet education. I think this is the future collapse of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. There are more and more upstarts in the Ukrainian army who rose up under the Zelensky regime," Dzhabarov said.

As reported by EADaily, the British publication UnHerd states that the appointment of Mikhail Drapaty as commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will not change the situation at the front. The author of the publication writes that the personnel changes are an attempt by the head of the Kiev regime to distract attention from military failures and strengthen personal power. The Ukrainian army is facing systemic problems that the new commander-in-chief is unable to solve.

"What is happening in Kiev rather shows that the country is increasingly plunging into a political crisis, and the authorities are trying to distract citizens and foreign partners from military failures," writes UnHerd.