L’ex consigliere di Fedorov accusa Syrskyi di indebolire deliberatamente l’esercito ucraino in un live streaming esplosivo

Doesnt syrskyi have family in Russia. How are they not being leveraged? I’m not accusing, genuinely curious.

Is there any chance zelynsky could be getting lied to, could syrskii be deliberately hiding things from him?

Claude Summary:

What Sternenko said:

Serhii Sternenko — a prominent activist and drone fundraiser who served as an adviser to Mykhailo Fedorov, the defense minister Zelensky dismissed two days earlier — went live on YouTube on July 17 with several serious accusations against Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi:

He described a failed assault on the Pokrovsk front by troops under suspended 425th “Skelia” Regiment commander Yurii Harkavyi, who allegedly sent them into an armored assault without notifying neighboring units or conducting reconnaissance. The column drove into Ukrainian minefields, came under Russian fire, and disoriented survivors mistakenly assaulted the positions of another Ukrainian brigade, killing fellow Ukrainian soldiers. He claims that instead of investigating and removing Harkavyi, the military leadership ran an information campaign to discredit Sternenko when he wrote about the incident publicly.

Beyond that single incident, he alleged a systemic pattern: Syrskyi deliberately deprived brigades whose commanders he disapproved of — with some favored regiments at one point receiving more than half of all newly mobilized personnel nationwide while others got minimal or no reinforcements — so that disfavored brigades would “collapse more quickly” under Russian attack. He also said the General Staff refused to provide casualty data to the Defense Ministry even when officials requested it, and concluded that Syrskyi should not just be removed but should bear criminal responsibility.

How credible is it?

There are reasons to take it seriously and reasons for caution.

Points in its favor:

Parts of the picture are independently corroborated. A Babel investigation alleged abuse and at least 26 noncombat deaths among Skelia recruits, and Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation opened a pre-trial investigation into the regiment the day after that report — so the claim that something is badly wrong in Skelia isn’t just Sternenko’s word. The Kyiv Independent also spoke to a senior member of a successful brigade (unnamed for fear of retaliation) who said they believed Syrskyi had deliberately sabotaged their unit, including withholding Western-promised support, and former Azov chief of staff Bohdan Krotevych has long accused Syrskyi of fostering a “lying culture” where subordinates fear reporting the real battlefield situation. Separately, when Sternenko claimed a day later that brigade commanders were ordered to record pro-Syrskyi videos, Ukrainska Pravda’s own sources within the military confirmed such an instruction had been issued — which suggests his sourcing inside the army is real, not fabricated.

Points for caution:

Sternenko is not a neutral observer. He’s from Fedorov’s team, speaking two days after Fedorov’s dismissal, one day after Fedorov admitted he had pushed to have Syrskyi replaced — this is one side of an open power struggle, and everything he says serves that side’s narrative. The most explosive part — deliberate weakening, i.e., intent rather than incompetence or bad resource allocation — is essentially unprovable from the outside and he didn’t specify which units he was describing. Some of his adjacent claims lack evidence: his assertion that a Skelia soldier who criticized Syrskyi disappeared and had his account deleted currently has no supporting evidence. And the General Staff hadn’t responded at publication time, so there’s no rebuttal to weigh yet. He also has his own history of friction with the authorities, including a disputed draft-summons episode, which cuts both ways — it could indicate persecution or an axe to grind.

My read:

The underlying critique — Soviet-style centralization, misreporting up the chain, skewed distribution of mobilized personnel, opacity on losses — is consistent with what soldiers, journalists, and other commanders have said for a while, and specific factual anchors (Skelia’s problems, the pro-Syrskyi video order) check out. But “deliberately weakening brigades to make them collapse” is an inference about motive from a partisan actor in the middle of a political fight. Plausible pattern, credible sourcing on specifics, unverified on intent — that’s roughly where it sits until the SBI investigation or independent reporting fills in more.

TL;DR: Looks like Syrskyi is indeed an old Soviet fuck and Fedorov was canned for trying to do something about it.

Is Syrskyi fired yet? Is Fedorov back yet? Is zelenskyi changing his mind yet?