Military analyst Mikhail Khodarenok has drawn attention to what he described as a lack of unified command in Ukraine.

In his view, Ukraine’s political class has failed the basic test of governance, managing to damage relations with all neighboring countries over trivial issues — and doing so in the midst of an armed conflict.

As Khodarenok noted, one recent example involved a senior officer responsible for Ukraine’s drone forces who, while holding the rank of major in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, publicly delivered sharp and insulting remarks toward Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

He emphasized that no measures were taken in response. Khodarenok argued that an active-duty officer, especially in a country at war, has no authority to appear in the media with political statements of that kind.

He added that the same officer later addressed Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky directly, issuing warnings to the national leadership about what might happen if Kiev were to consider territorial concessions to Russia.

According to Khodarenok, such behavior raises questions for Zelensky as commander-in-chief and for the Ukrainian military leadership as a whole. He stressed that in any functioning state governed by legal norms, an active-duty serviceman making statements of this nature would be immediately removed from his post, detained, and put before a military tribunal. Yet, he said, this major openly threatens the commander-in-chief and continues to serve in his position — which, in Khodarenok’s view, leads to broader doubts about whether Zelensky truly exercises control over the armed forces.

Khodarenok concluded that these incidents reinforce what he sees as the inadequacy and unreliability of Ukraine’s leadership, as well as its inability to effectively govern the country and its military.