About 50,000 servicemen from all branches and types of troops will be transferred to the Ground Forces to replenish combat brigades.
According to UP, citing sources in the General Staff, this is happening following the order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, issued on January 11.
The publication notes that the purpose of this significant transfer is to initiate the first rotation in three years of full-scale war.
“We need to do this to launch the rotation mechanism. The resources currently training in the educational centers are only sufficient for minimal replenishment of units, not for the full provision of combat capabilities. Through these movements between the troops, along with recruitment, we will be able to achieve this. A rotation plan has already been approved,” a source told UP.
Recall that in January it was reported that an order had been issued to the Air Forces regarding the transfer of a large number of military personnel to the Ground Forces to replenish combat brigades. The General Staff stated that “certain categories” of personnel from the Air Forces, as well as from other branches and types of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, after training in educational centers, indeed reinforce the Ground, Airborne Assault, and other troops.
The Air Forces added that specialists from the engineering and aviation service will not be transferred. President Volodymyr Zelensky also instructed not to reduce the number of specialists needed by the Air Forces to carry out combat tasks.
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