{"id":275431,"date":"2023-11-08T08:12:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T08:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=275431"},"modified":"2023-11-10T07:56:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T07:56:30","slug":"ukraine-sitrep-assassinations-election-talk-language-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=275431","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine SitRep: Assassinations, Election Talk, Language War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Moon of Alabama \u2013 Nov 7, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The recent publications <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2023\/10\/the-war-is-lost-zelenski-will-leave-the-white-house-has-failed.html\">about Zelenski&#8217;s egomania<\/a> in <em>Time<\/em> and the war &#8216;stalemate&#8217; as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2023\/11\/ukraine-sitrep-technologies-and-stalemate-zaluznys-failures.html\">claimed by General Zaluzny<\/a> in <em>The Economist<\/em> have led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2023\/11\/the-ukraine-peace-talk-trial-balloon.html\">a conflict<\/a> between the political and military sides of Ukraine:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">There are sure signs that the divide between the political and military leadership in Ukraine is growing. President Zelenski, on request of his new defense minister, just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2023\/11\/3\/7427118\/\">removed<\/a> the commander of Ukraine&#8217;s special forces and installed a new one:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Major General Viktor Khorenko does not know the reasons for his dismissal from the post of Commander of the Special Operations Forces. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, did not submit a request for his dismissal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It is very unusual to fire an officer without a request from his superior commander.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">There are also shots fired against Zaluzny himself:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2023\/11\/4\/7427182\/\">President&#8217;s Office advises Commander-in-Chief of Ukrainian Armed Forces not to publicise situation at front<\/a> &#8211; <em>UA Pravda<\/em> &#8211; Nov 4 2023<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Ihor Zhovkva, Deputy Head of the Office of the President, commenting on the article by Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine&#8217;s Armed Forces, for The Economist, has said that the military should not bring to the public what is happening at the front.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nZhovkva also stated that &#8220;one of the heads of the leaders&#8217; offices&#8221; called him after the mentioned article was published.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">&#8220;And they simply ask me in a panic, \u2018What should I report to my leader? Are we really at a stalemate?\u2019. Are we trying to achieve this effect with this article?&#8221;, the President\u2019s Office representative said.<\/p>\n<p>Zaluzny is seen as a potential candidate for president should the Ukraine decide to hold elections.<\/p>\n<p>He recently &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/strana.news\/news\/449814-valerij-zaluzhnyj-postavil-lajk-pod-postom-alekseja-arestovicha-v-sotssetjakh.html\">liked<\/a>&#8216; (in Russian) a Facebook post by the ex-adviser to the president Alexey Arestovich, who is now a public critic of the Zelenski regime. Arestovich has reportedly moved to Austria out of fear of being arrested or worse. He is also a well known potential presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday an aide to General Zaluzny <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/explosion-kills-zaluzhnyi-assistant-home-195000849.html\">was killed<\/a> by what seems to have been a package bomb:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2023\/11\/ukraine-sitrep-assassinations-election-talk-language-war.html#more\">Cont. reading: <em>Ukraine SitRep: Assassinations, Election Talk, Language War<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An aide to the commander of the Ukrainian Army has just been killed by a mysterious grenade blast while celebrating his birthday at home. With a widening rift between Ukraine\u2019s political and military leaders, this points to more serious divisions emerging in Kiev  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275459,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275431\/revisions\/275459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}