Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, said that the change of the commander of the Russian troops in Ukraine testifies to the "revenge" of classic generalship in the Russian Federation.

The adviser to the head of the OP spoke about this on the air of the telethon "Edyny Novyny" on January 11.

It should be noted that Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation, has been appointed as the new commander of the Russian forces in Ukraine instead of Serhiy Surovikin.

"This means

a rematch of the classical generalship

, because Surovikin was close to the ultra-radical group in Putin's entourage, which claimed the status of "we are the main ones". I mean Prigozhin, and the same Surovikin, and the same Kadyrov. That is, this group moved very powerfully to the top of the "food chain", from the bottom up," explained Podolyak.

In his opinion,

the Prigozhin-Surovikin-Kadyrov group

sought to organize its entourage around Russian President Vladimir Putin in order to manage the country as such, realizing that the dictator was losing influence.

The adviser to the OP chairman noted that the Russian president understands this.

Podolyak also said that Gerasimov is the main author of the "hybrid war" concept.

However, the question remains as to whether he understands the "hot", standard war.

"He (Gerasimov - ed.) became the commander of the united group of Russian troops, Surovikin became his deputy, but it seems to me that the more important component is that the

classic generals - they are beginning to push Prigozhin, the FSBshniks

", - drew the attention of the adviser to the head of the presidential office.

According to him, against the background of the heavy fighting in Soledar, the oligarch and owner of PVK "Wagner" Yevgeny Prigozhin "wants to prove that he knows how to fight operationally and tactically."

"They collected everything they could. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation says that there are "parts of the Airborne Forces storming the city". Prigozhin says that apart from his personal prisoners, no one is storming Soledar. That is, today they are fighting for the opportunity to get such a platform from which

they will attack the peaks of the Russian authorities

as such", - believes the adviser to the head of the OP.

We will remind, at the end of December 2022, the head of the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Budanov, stated that Surovikin joined Prigozhin to oppose the head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Sergei Shoigu.

That is why the "Wagner" units so fanatically tried to capture Bakhmut.

According to Russian oppositionist Andriy Piontkovsky, the private armies of Prigozhin, Kadyrov and Shoigu are preparing for a civil war in the Russian Federation over the redistribution of property.

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