newly appointed yuckrainian turd insults russia....

Ukraine’s new commander-in-chief, Major General Mikhail Drapaty, has said that Russia had “no right” to exist and made derogatory remarks about the residents of Russia’s Donbass region, which Ukraine continues to claim as its own.

On Wednesday, the YouTube documentary channel Ukrainer W released an interview with Drapaty originally recorded in 2023. Speaking to journalist Karina Pilyugina, the general said that he had long anticipated a war with Russia.

“We see that you cannot call them neighbors. It is a nation, together with its leadership, that has no right to exist. Over thousands of years, nothing has changed there in civilizational terms – neither its mentality nor its imperial ambitions,” he said.

The journalist asked Drapaty why people in the largely Russian-speaking Donbass were more likely to help Russian troops than residents of the Kiev region. The general claimed that the Donetsk and Lugansk regions had long been dominated by “settlers and criminal elements.”

That is why the population there lacks (a Ukrainian national) consciousness. That’s my opinion. It seems that too little attention was paid there to Ukrainization,” he added.

Drapaty went on to claim that “a significant number” of people in Donbass “do not want to work, want handouts, and do not care which country they live in.”

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova condemned the general’s comments as “neo-Nazi.”Moscow has said Ukraine’s language and cultural laws are aimed at erasing the identity of Russian speakers and has listed the treatment of Ukraine’s Russian minority as one of the causes of the ongoing conflict.

Drapaty first rose to prominence during the 2014 campaign to quash the revolt of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, which broke away from Ukraine following the Western-backed coup in Kiev. The regions voted to become part of Russia in September 2022.

Drapaty replaced Aleksandr Syrsky as commander-in-chief this week amid a political crisis triggered by Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s decision to dismiss Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov. The move sparked protests in Kiev and other cities demanding Fedorov’s reinstatement and Syrsky’s dismissal. Fedorov and Syrsky reportedly clashed over military strategy in the conflict with Russia.

https://www.rt.com/russia/643405-ukraine-drapaty-russia-comments/

NO SO STRANGELY, THE NEO-NAZI COMMENT BY YUCKRAINIAN GENERAL WHATIZNAME REFLECTS WHAT THE WEST HAS DECIDED A WHILE BACK. THE AMERICANS HAVE HATED RUSSIA SINCE 1917, THE FRENCH SINCE NAPOLEON AND THE BRITS SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL... AS FAR AS THE GERMANS GO, THE WANT A REVENGE FOR THEIR DEFEAT IN 1945 FOR WHICH THEY BLAME THE RUSSIANS... VON DER LAYETTE IS A GERMAN LOSER WHOSE GRAND FATHER MAY HAVE LOST THE WAR THEN...

MAKE A DEAL PRONTO BEFORE THE SHIT (WW3) HITS THE FAN:

NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

TRANSNISTRIA TO BE PART OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

RESTORE THE RIGHTS OF THE RUSSIAN SPEAKING PEOPLE OF "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

RESTITUTE THE ORTHODOX CHURCH PROPERTIES AND RIGHTS

RELEASE THE OPPOSITION MEMBERS FROM PRISON

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE EU.....

EASY.

THE WEST KNOWS IT.

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WELCOME TO THIS INSANE WORLD….

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Who is Ukraine's new military chief?

Hanna Sokolova-Stekh | Lilia Rzheutska

Mykhailo Drapatyi has been made commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces. His appointment follows a cabinet reshuffle that ousted defense minister Fedorov.

On Tuesday (July 21), Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed Mykhailo Drapatyi as the new commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Zelenskyy wants him to develop a modern defense strategy and to continue the recently launched military reforms.

This comes after an unexpected cabinet reshuffle last week. Many ministers have retained their posts under new Prime Minister Sergii Koretskyi, but not former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who had a major argument with former commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi about the strategic direction that Ukraine's war effort should take.

The firing of the popular defense minister sparked outrage among parts of Ukraine's population. During mass protests, demonstrators not only demanded his return but also the dismissal of Syrskyi.

While the latter has now been removed from his post, Federov will not be returning. Zelenskyy has appointed Yevhen Khmara, who was previously head of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), as the new defense minister.

'The army needs changes'

Mykhailo Drapatyi was the only general who publicly defended Fedorov after his dismissal. He wrote on Facebook that Fedorov's appointment to the defense ministry six months ago had been "a serious attempt to change conditions in the military system that were in place for years."

He added that the Defense Ministry had developed into a true partner for the army: "Cooperation between the troops and the Defense Ministry changed. There was a new willingness to listen to commanders, to take decisions more quickly and to support changes that came from the units themselves."

Drapatyj explained that many of the changes had had to be pushed through despite fierce resistance from the old system, and that there was a need to discuss problems in the army openly and honestly.

Who is Mykhailo Drapatyi?

Mykhailo Drapatyi (born in 1982) is a highly decorated Ukrainian major general who has distinguished himself as a battle-hardened frontline commander since 2014. At the beginning of the Donbas War, the trained tank trooper became known for his resolve during what was then called an "anti-terror operation."

After Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, he coordinated — as deputy commander of the Ukrainian Joint Forces — the successful defense of the town of Kryvyi Rih as well as the liberation of strategically important areas in the south of the country.

Thanks to his reputation as a military crisis manager, who also stopped the Russian offensive near Kharkiv in 2024, he rose through the ranks of the general staff to become head of the ground forces of the Ukrainian army and eventually Commander of the Joint Forces.

Did Syrskyi want to eliminate a rival?

On June 1, 2025, Drapatyi handed in his resignation as army commander after a Russian missile strike targeting a training ground under his command killed at least 12 soldiers and injured more than 60 others.

On Facebook, he justified his decision, citing his "personal sense of accountability for this tragedy." This earned Drapatyi a reputation for not hanging on to a position at all costs and taking moral responsibility. President Zelenskyy, however, did not accept the resignation and later appointed Drapatyi commander of the Joint Forces.

However, when Drapatyi was tasked with defending the Kharkiv region in autumn 2025, observers remarked that this was a deliberate move to restrict his influence. Some media outlets speculated that Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi wanted to sideline the popular general as a potential rival.

A crisis of the president's own making?

Observers point out that President Zelenskyy's personnel decisions seem to have been driven by growing public pressure.

Military experts are divided when it comes to assessing the change of power. Oleksandr Khara of the Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies views the protests as an important democratic corrective in an era in which elections cannot take place.

"The president listened to the response from civil society and the military and drew his conclusions. Society has succeeded in steering events back onto a democratic course," he said.

Speaking to DW, Oleksiy Melnyk of the Kyiv-based Razumkov Center was more critical. While Zelenskyy had the right to make personnel decisions, he had nonetheless caused a major domestic political crisis that was completely unnecessary.

"This will definitely not turn out to his advantage. It is regrettable that the president has learned nothing from previous lessons, because exactly one year ago there was a similarly triggered home-grown crisis," he said.

This article was originally published in Ukrainian.

https://www.dw.com/en/who-is-ukraines-new-military-chief-mykhailo-drapatyi/a-78077075

DESPITE THIS GLOWING REPORT ON DRAPARTYI, HE'S STILL A NASTY NAZI WHO HAS COMMITTED WAR CRIMES AS SEEN ON ONE VIDEO...