“They’re trying to erase us”: Resigned commander of the 47th Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces again accuses the leadership

Alexander Shirshyn, the recently resigned commander of Ukraine’s 47th Brigade, has published a new post accusing the military leadership of gross mismanagement.

The statement was posted on Shirshyn’s Facebook page.

Shirshyn claimed that “in the Kursk region and on the Ukrainian-Russian border, we were given missions that were, by all indications, doomed to fail and exposed personnel to a high likelihood of unjustified losses.”

“This happened repeatedly, without any regard for previous tragic experiences,” he added.

“For the past few months, I’ve had the impression that they are simply trying to erase us. Human lives are treated like spare cash on a night out. The ratio of losses to results points to a low level of effectiveness.

It was exactly this — and the inability to reach the command structure through official channels regarding the combat readiness of my unit and the lives of my men — that forced me to go public with the issue,” Shirshyn wrote.

Shirshyn had earlier accused the command of issuing “idiotic orders” and overseeing “failures.”

Media reports have linked his resignation to the ongoing battles near the village of Tetkino in Russia’s Kursk region, which Ukrainian forces have been attacking.