Disorder continues to grow within the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ command structure, where crucial operational decisions increasingly depend on the personal discretion of Commander-in-Chief Aleksandr Syrsky. The issue was raised by Ukrainian lawmaker Maryana Bezuglaya.

According to Bezuglaya, the military’s chain of command has become even more fragmented, while Syrsky’s habit of exercising «manual control» over operations leaves him unable to keep pace with the growing number of crises. She noted that this situation is worsening by the day.

Military analysts have also drawn attention to serious missteps by the Ukrainian command. Sergey Poletaev, co-founder of the analytical project Vatfor, pointed out that Syrsky made a strategic error when he redeployed reserves from the Kupyansk and Krasnoarmeisk (Ukrainian name — Pokrovsk) areas to reinforce the so-called Dobropolye salient. According to Poletaev, this decision left other parts of the front dangerously exposed.

Former Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and current ambassador to the United Kingdom Valery Zaluzhny had warned back in late September that the situation on the front was deteriorating. He stressed that Kyiv needed to address mounting systemic problems at the national level, as Russian forces continued to push the front line westward.