Atlantants of surgery. As Colonel-General Alexander Sirsky became one of the co-authors of the new victories of the Armed Forces in the East and helped defend Kyiv

In both cases, the merits of Syrsky - along with other commanders of the Armed Forces - were officially recognized in the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. “Pedantic and thoughtful, Colonel-General Alexander Sirsky-from those experienced officers who are preparing for all unforeseen circumstances. Even to those scenarios he thinks very unlikely, ”the American The Washington Post wrote about him.

Video of the NV Day tells about the Ukrainian military commander, who has been managing the defense of Ukraine from Russian invaders for more than eight years, and to which the world press has been watching with increasing attention. "The Colonel General who gives the Ukrainians hope," was described by 57-year-old Alexander Syrsky journalists of the German Spiegel in his recent publication about him.

On September 9, in the midst of a rapid offensive of Ukraine in Kharkiv region, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine named its name among the creators of new victories of the Armed Forces in all directions - "Atlantants holding surgery on their shoulders. " “There are no major or minor performers in our struggle. […] Ukrainians write the lines of the history of our Great Liberation War together, - the Deputy Minister of Defense Anna Malyar wrote.

- And yet there is a special category of artists of their business. Oscar of military glory belongs to them. This is about our Armed Forces command and commander, who today in the east and south of the country are accurately and purposefully hitting Russian invaders.

" Among these figures, the painter listed four people who are inherent in the preparation of hostilities, authority and charisma: the next day after this publication, on September 10, the Ministry of Defense released a video in which Syrsky in the conquered balaclia participates in the ceremony of raising the flag of Ukraine and welcome Ukrainian servicemen with the release of the first major city during an operation in Kharkiv region.

"I am sure that this is not the last city: we have Kupyansk, which is half taken by our troops, in front of raisins and many others," Syrsky said before these cities were released through a few days. Spiegel noted that he celebrated the release of Balaklia "without pump and euphoria, but with pride and relief. " On September 14, Oleksandr Syrsky, commander of a defense operation in eastern Ukraine, together with Vladimir Zelensky was present at a similar ceremony in Izium.

Meanwhile, the international media is spreading that the 57-year-old military commander allegedly became one of those who offered the key ideas of the breakthrough of Ukrainian troops in Kharkiv region. "It is said that Colonel-General Syrsky had a plan to distract the Russians with a long-announced onset in the south in the Kherson region-hoping that they would take troops from the Eastern Front," Spiegel writes, emphasizing at the same time unconfiguring this information.

"It was Syrsky who found a weak place in Russian defense near Balakliya. " Such a version spread in Ukrainian, and later in some Western media, in particular through the post of political technologist Alexei Golubotsky, who, as research of the portal research, was previously observed in the "PR of a number of politicians". In his publication on Facebook Golubotsky also stated that Sirsky allegedly had to persuade other warlords in the prospect of the plan.

However, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine made it clear that such statements are nothing more than unreasonable rumors. "I see that some social networks write about the details of military operations and decision -making as if they also have access [to state secret] and they have a legal permission to spread it," said Deputy Minister of Defense Anna Malyar on September 15. - I would, of course, turn to law enforcement agencies to find the one who "drains" state secret.

But so far, only fictions and gossip write. As it really is, the "leaders of thoughts" and no one has reported to the channels-and it is pleasing. " Editor -in -chief of Censor. NET Yuriy Butusov, commenting on the Radio NV of the Armed Forces in the Kharkiv region, suggested that this offensive operation was a "collective decision". “It is worth noting the skill of actions of the Ukrainian command. The key contribution is the commander -in -chief of [Armed Forces] Valery Zaluzhny.

Because without his initiative, without his actions, it would be impossible in principle, ”the journalist said, recalling the strategic importance and scale of the operation. Alexander Sirsky, he said, most likely carried out operational management of the operation. “Syrsky is a commander of defense forces. Man is known, one of the leaders of our army […], - Butus recalled. - If you evaluate the result, it is a very high level of management. Undoubtedly, this is a workshop.

" The role of Alexander Sirsky in the confrontation of Russian invaders on Ukrainian land is undeniable. On April 5, 2022, after the escape of the Russian troops from the Kiev region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy awarded the Colonel-General of the title of Hero of Ukraine: it was Syrsky who commanded the defense of Kiev in the first critical weeks of the Russian invasion. He was assigned to this role shortly before the invasion.

In a recent conversation with The Washington Post journalists - a rare conversation with the press in recent months - Syrsky admitted that he had not believed in the possibility of a full -scale war with the Russian Federation. “Frankly, I could not even imagine that Russia's leadership would unleash such a brazen large -scale aggression.

It seemed to me that if active fighting began, then most likely they would begin in the east, in the area or within the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, ”he said in a conversation with WP. And yet Syrsky tried to prepare the capital for the war as much as possible. “We are a military. Therefore, no matter what I believed or did not believe in, I still performed the necessary actions, ”he said later.

Even before the invasion, taking into account the deployment of Russian forces along the borders of Ukraine, Syrsky suggested that if the Russians still dare to step on Kyiv, then their columns will move from the north to several main highways - "hoping for a quick breakthrough to the government quarter in Kiev to disperse power, ”wrote WP. Therefore, Syrsky organized two Kiev defense rings: one on the outer surroundings and one within the capital.

At the same time, he sought the outer ring to be as far away from the internal. This would give a chance to protect the central part of the city from shelling and not allow the Russians to fight on the approaches to Kiev. “Syrsky divided the city and the areas adjacent to it into sectors and appointed to manage each district of generals from military-educational centers, creating a clear chain of subordination, which would obey all Ukrainian military units and security services.

Tactical decisions on the field were allowed to make immediately, without the need to consult the headquarters, ”the WP Syrian Syrian journalists described. In addition, the Colonel General ordered the Air Force forces, including helicopters and planes, from the main bases, placing them away from obvious purposes for air strikes.

About a week before the invasion, the defenders of Kyiv and the region moved the key command points "in the field" in the directions of the possible direction of the offensive of the Russians. Due to the fact that only the equipment of the 72nd mechanized brigade was available to protect Kiev, which was obviously not enough for such a large city, Syrsky also ordered the artillery systems that were commonly used to study in the capital.

Some of these systems came from a girl's training center, located southeast of Kiev. "Syrsky ordered their artillerymen to take defensive positions outside the capital, northeast and northwest of the city - in areas that could face the pressure of the Russians," WP notes. And a day before the invasion, a number of air defense facilities in the area of ​​Kiev were moved, so their deployment remained unknown to the Russians.

The defenders of Kiev were also waiting for failures: part of the air defense systems that Ukrainian troops installed around the Gostomel Airport, became the objects of blows before Russia sent its transport aircraft there. According to Sirsky, their positions were revealed by an airfield employee whose son was recruited by Russian intelligence. "The fact that they were able to storm the airfield and take it under control for several hours, on the one hand played a negative role," Syrsky said.

-But on the other hand, the artillery fire, aimed at the runway and landing, delayed the landing of the landing and disrupted the plan for the capture of Kiev, because, as we now know, the opponent in principle took to the capture of Kiev for no more than three days. " Usually a short-haired, Colonel General also told WP journalists about the moment when the risk of Kyiv was the greatest-during the March attempt of Russian troops to break through the Armed Forces near the village of Moshchun.

Sirsky recalls how he watched the Russian military equipment on monitors, which was lined up in combat on the other side of the Irpin River. "It was probably the most critical moment when I thought," Well, that's going to happen? - remembers Sirsky. - For [to take] the brush meant to enter Kiev. " However, the Moshchun managed to keep - in particular, thanks to the decision of the Kiev defense commanders to blow the dam, raising the water level in a dangerous breakthrough in the area.

"The water flooded the Russians, then we even found a place where the Russian Marines had to drop all the bulletproof vests and to fall to stay alive," Sirsky said. Both his preparatory efforts and landmark decisions during the defense of the capital, and the courage of ordinary defenders played their role.

On April 4, when Russian troops finally left Kiev, Minister of Defense Alexei Reznikov noted the efforts of the whole Ukrainian command-from Valery Zaluzhny and the Chief of Staff Sergei Shaptala was "those who should be thanked for the preservation of the capital.

" "First, it is the commander of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel-General Alexander Sirsky, who is directly responsible for the defense of Kyiv and the region," Reznikov emphasized his role among other military officers, intelligence commanders and ordinary soldiers. Already a few weeks after the threat from Kiev was removed, Sirsky returned to hell of fighting again: he was appointed commander of a defense operation in eastern Ukraine.

It was in the Donbass that he spent the last eight years, at different levels in command of operations of Ukrainian troops in defense against Russian troops and its puppets. Oleksandr Syrsky congratulates the Ukrainian military on Independence Day of Ukraine, August 24, 2022: Oleksandr Syrsky received his first military education in Soviet times in Moscow, where in 1982 he graduated from the Moscow Higher General Command School.

Spiegel called this detail of his biography "one of the bitter irony of the present war. " Syrsky has served in Ukraine since the first years of its independence. Already in 1996, the future commander of the Land Forces graduated from the Academy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and in 2005-the National Academy of Defense of Ukraine, both higher education-with the highest result.

All these years, the Syrsky step by step trusted more and more large -scale and responsible tasks: he went from the platoon commander to one of the key figures during the ATO/OOS, and later during the full -scale offensive of Russia. In the 1990s, Syrsky commanded one of the brigades of the 6th Division of the National Guard of Ukraine in Chuguev. He later became the commander of the 72nd separate mechanized brigade in the White Church.

Shortly before the Dignity Revolution, it was Alexander Sirsky - at that time, the first deputy chief of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces - was among the key warlords of the Ukrainian army, who were responsible for its cooperation with NATO and future reforms of the Armed Forces. It was involved in the development of the Strategy for the transition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the standards of the Alliance.

After the escape of Viktor Yanukovych from Ukraine, the annexation of Crimea and the invasion of Russia in the Donbas in early 2014, Syrsky held the position of Chief of Staff of Anti -Terrorist Operation (ATO) and Deputy Commander of the ATO. Even then, the General had the opportunity to study the enemy well in combat conditions: Syrsky was one of the key Ukrainian commanders during the most difficult for the Armed Forces of fighting for the Debaltsev bridgehead in January-February 2015.

Then, according to Defense Express, he managed Ukrainian units during the battles in Kallegirsk, the village of Ridkoodub and during an attempt to repel Logvinov, and coordinated a group of Bars, which covered the departure of Ukrainian troops from the city of Debaltseve. For his participation in the battles of Syrsk, he was awarded the Order of Bohdan Khmelnitsky III degree, and later he received the title of Lieutenant General.

Not only during the hottest battles, but all eight years before the full -scale invasion of Russia, Alexander Sirsky was actively involved in the defense of Ukraine against Russian invaders. In 2016-2019, he headed the Joint Operational Headquarters of the Armed Forces (twice in different periods), the command of anti -terrorist operation and the operations of the Joint Forces (OOS) in Lugansk and Donetsk regions (in May - August 2019).

Three years ago, on August 5, 2019, Syrsky was appointed commander of the Armed Forces Land Forces. He still holds this position, in this role, the Colonel-General also met the Day of the Russian invasion of February 24, 2022. At the head of the Land Forces, Sirsky continued those reforms that eventually helped the Ukrainian army be flexible on the battlefield and go forward in its development much further than the Russian army.

Among such innovations is the transformation of military administration into land troops. "There was a separation of functions of formation, preparation, development of troops, technical equipment and comprehensive support from the functions of management and application," explained in 2020 the profile website of Defense Express in one of the materials about Sirsky.

- This is radically different from what provided the Soviet management system, which until recently was governed by the Ukrainian army. In such a distribution, when each specializes in specific things can be achieved much more efficiency on each of these steps.

" Although the Western media is writing about Syrsky as a non-public military commander, who rarely communicates with the media, even before the February invasion of the Russian Federation, the Colonel General has repeatedly shared with the profile Ukrainian media with his vision of the Armed Forces and the situation on the front.

From several interviews of Syrsk recent years (for the FM army, the army, as well as a series of interviews for Defense Express-1, 2, 3, 4) we have collected a number of most significant quotations of Ukrainian Colonel General. All these statements were made before February 2022.

"Combat training is the basis of the combat capability of the army […] The experience acquired during the confrontation of the Russian aggressor has allowed us to look at combat training in a more practical plane and to work out a new system that would allow you to promptly rethink the acquired combat experience and implement it in the preparation of troops" " For me, as a commander of the Land Forces, the extreme importance of the information component in the hybrid war is more than obvious […] we constantly develop the system of information struggle itself, created a constant structure of information monitoring and counteraction.

This is the most important area with the preparation of troops. " "Donbas is used by the occupiers as a landfill to check the capabilities of modern Russian weapons and military equipment" [on the ATO/OOS period] "the Armed Forces of Ukraine are among the few armies of the world, which have the successful experience of confronting the army of the nuclear state.

In this case, we act in an operating environment that uses the most modern reconnaissance, RA and HR, communications, UAVs, armored vehicles, high -precision agents and more. In view of this, we must continue to improve ourselves - to increase the knowledge, skills and skills of fighters, the coordination of crews, units and joints, as well as to saturate the combat units with modern OVTs.

We should oppose the enemy our qualitative and technological advantage, taking the maximum preservation of the lives of defenders of Ukraine as a reference point. " “Our warriors are able to complete any task in all conditions and environment. I really often go to positions, platoon strongholds, observation posts. First, I want to see the real state of my own eyes. Secondly, when communicating with our servicemen, I see their mood, their needs and I can satisfy them sooner.

Third, I feel that our fighters need it, they feel that they are not left alone and that the issues that arise there are solved instantly. " «Людський фактор постійно грає головну роль в виконанні будь-яких завдань.

І на той час [під час оборони Дебальцевсьокго плацдарму] для нас це також мало велике значення, тому що саме готовність нашого особового складу виконувати завдання в умовах такої жорсткої протидії з боку противника, в умовах постійних обстрілів, визначала, спроможні ми виконати задачі чи неспроможні».