Generals should be in trenches, - Zelenskyy on changing approaches to management in Armed Forces
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has spoken out about changing approaches to management in the Armed Forces. These changes should reduce bureaucracy in the army.
The head of state said this during the III International Conference on Food Security Grain From Ukraine,Suspilne reports, Censor.NET informs.
The President noted that the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, currently has a "main task" to reduce bureaucracy in the army.
Zelenskyy also stressed that "the morale of the military is the most important thing".
"And if, but this is up to the military to decide, if the transition to the corps-brigade system, which they propose today, means reducing this distance from the general to the soldier, if this bureaucracy is reduced, let them do so," the head of state said.
In addition, the president said that an officer should see a soldier. Zelenskyy said that for him personally, "a general who has not been in a trench is not a general, despite his experience."
"And this is very important. An officer must see a soldier. For me, a general who has not been in a trench is not a general, despite his experience. With all due respect, today the most difficult situation is on the front line, in the trench. Generals must be in the trenches. This is the war," the President said.
On 19 November, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented Ukraine's 10-point Resilience Plan to the Rada. The second point of this plan provides for a change in approaches to management in the army.
