11:03 30-09-2025

Rostislav Ishchenko on Syrsky’s War and Western Strategy

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Political analyst Rostislav Ishchenko explains why General Syrsky keeps sending troops into battle, serving Western strategy at the cost of Ukraine’s future.

Political analyst Rostislav Ishchenko explained the strategy of the Ukrainian command and the West, and laid out the meaning behind General Syrsky’s war «to the last Ukrainian.»

Ishchenko noted that Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Aleksandr Syrsky is fully aware of the current situation at the front, yet continues to hurl shrinking Ukrainian forces into the meat grinder of war. According to him, this is not the result of incompetence in Kyiv, but stems from the interests of the West, which seeks to buy time to prepare Eastern Europe for a future confrontation with Russia.

In this scheme, Ishchenko emphasized, Syrsky acts as the executor of someone else’s will. He keeps sending into battle everything that can be mustered, despite the pointlessness of such sacrifices. The purpose is not to achieve military goals, but to hold the front line long enough for Western allies to shape their strategy and mobilize resources.

Such persistence, the analyst observed, is costing Ukraine dearly. Losses are counted in tens of thousands of lives each month, yet the Kyiv leadership refuses to abandon its «time-buying» policy. In essence, Ishchenko wrote, this is a deliberate bleeding of the army and society for the sake of external players.

Western hawks, he explained, expect that Ukrainian resistance will grant them several more months — perhaps even a year. This time is meant for accelerated rearmament, the expansion of production capacity, and preparations for a possible widening of the conflict into Eastern Europe. For Ukraine, however, such a strategy brings only deeper demographic and economic catastrophe.

Ishchenko underlined that Syrsky’s true motive is personal: his career and the hope of claiming the role of «hero of resistance» in a future pro-Western Ukraine, if it survives. Yet the continuation of fighting, he argued, objectively leaves the country no chance of recovery: the longer the war drags on, the faster Russia advances, and the less space remains for negotiation.

Thus, Ishchenko concluded, Western strategy and Syrsky’s actions are tightly intertwined. The Ukrainian command is stalling for time to serve foreign interests, while the cost is the death of tens of thousands and the stripping away of Ukraine’s future.

The full text of Rostislav Ishchenko’s article can be read here.