‘You are sending fifty-year-olds to storm the woods’: MP Bezuhla criticized Syrskyi’s interview with The Guardian

Ukrainian MP Maryana Bezuhla criticized the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, for his interview with the British newspaper The Guardian.

The post with the critique appeared on the MP’s Telegram channel.

Bezuhla called the commander’s statements “manipulation by a deceitful traditionalist,” adding that Syrskyi “manipulates by posing ostentatiously on ammunition boxes.”

The parliamentarian was particularly displeased with Syrskyi’s phrase that everyone must fight.

“Everyone? So, you kidnap people from innovative defense enterprises in territorial recruitment centers and send fifty-year-olds to assault plantations? And zombie brigades must be created because Russia is increasing its infantry, and we must increase ours! A symmetrical response! We also have more than a hundred million population, right?” wrote the MP.

She also compared Syrskyi’s statements to an autumn article by Valerii Zaluzhnyi in The Economist, where he wrote about a stalemate on the front, and accused both of them of “physically destroying” a new generation of military personnel.

“We already had a pompous positive bubble in 2023, and it gave no results. Now it’s time for the truth. Because the way we are moving, it will be Fortress Pokrovsk, not coffee in Crimea. We need to look at reality with wide-open, not drunken, eyes,” Bezuhla concluded.

It is worth noting that after Zaluzhnyi’s article appeared in The Economist, Bezuhla claimed that he publishes materials in Western media through the owner of “Ukrainska Pravda,” Tomasz Fiala, and the editor-in-chief of “Ukrainska Pravda,” Sevgil Musaeva.