Ukraine’s commander-in-chief on mass switch to infantry models: Mobilisation efforts fail to fulfill frontline wants

Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi has acknowledged that mobilisation efforts don’t absolutely meet the necessity for personnel on the frontline, which is why some servicemen concerned in logistics and assist are being transferred to infantry roles.

Supply: Syrskyi in an interview with Ukrainian TV channel TSN, commenting on the switch of Air Power personnel to infantry models

Quote: "Before everything, I’ve issued an order stopping the switch [to infantry units – ed.] of extremely expert troopers who’ve accomplished specialist coaching to service plane, as there may be successfully nobody to exchange them.

On the opposite facet, we’ve got a vital want on the entrance traces. We should broaden the variety of personnel in mechanised brigades.

Sadly, mobilising capabilities don’t meet this necessity. In consequence, we’re taking steps to decrease our logistics, assist, and servicing elements to sustainable ranges. Headquarters are conscious of those duties and have carried out the required calculations."

Background:

• Ukrainska Pravda sources reported that since 2024, fight brigades of the Floor Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been replenished with troopers transferred from Ukraine’s Air Power models. This has continued into 2025. The most recent order from Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi on the switch of personnel was obtained by the Air Power models on 11 January. A Ukrainska Pravda supply famous that greater than 5,000 troopers have been to be transferred to the Floor Forces.
• The Common Employees of the Armed Forces of Ukraine formally acknowledged that "there have been no plans to switch extremely poor specialists of the Air Power engineering and aviation service who preserve plane to infantry models".
• On the similar time, Ukraine’s Common Employees famous that the state of affairs on the entrance line stays difficult, with a major scarcity of infantry in lots of areas. Due to this fact, the choice to bolster floor brigades on the entrance line with personnel from different models and branches of the army is a compelled measure by the command to strengthen Ukraine's defence.
• Later, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has instructed Anatolii Kryvonozhko, Commander of the Ukrainian Air Power, to not cut back the variety of Air Power personnel, in addition to to make clear the state of affairs relating to their transfers to the Floor Forces.
• The Air Power has established a particular fee to evaluation the state of affairs relating to the switch of Air Power personnel to different branches and varieties of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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