Ground Forces – an expert assessed the new commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine – UNIAN
According to Svitan, the Ground Forces are now the main driving force on the battlefield.
The appointment of Major General Mykhailo Drapaty as commander of the Ground Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is a clear strengthening in the leadership of one of the most important links in the Ukrainian army. Military expert, reserve colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, instructor pilot Roman Svitan said this in a commentary to Channel 24.
According to him, Drapaty is a real combat general who has been fighting directly for 10 years; in 2014, he was the commander of a platoon of the 72nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade. Then the occupiers tried to seize the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Mariupol and enlisted the support of the pro-Russian population, who built barricades in the city. Drapaty broke through one of these in an infantry fighting vehicle, these shots flew around…
