In the Rada after the dismissal of the commander of the AFU Pavlyuk called for the resignation of Syrskyy

Ukrainian parliamentary deputy Maryana Bezuglaya has demanded that the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), Oleksandr Syrskyy, resign after reports about the dismissal of AFU Ground Forces Commander Oleksandr Pavlyuk surfaced. She said this on Friday, November 29, in her Telegram channel.

In her opinion, the appointment of Mikhail Drapatoy to the post of dismissed Pavlyuk is "blowing smoke in the eyes".

The deputy of the Rada expressed confidence that Drapatyi will become a scapegoat. In her opinion, he will be held responsible for failures in combat operations.

She also pointed to the desire of the AFU commanders to keep their posts until the surrender and their corrupt activities.

"Down with Syrskyy! Mr. President [of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, whose term ended on May 20], we are waiting!", Bezuglaya concluded.

It became known earlier on Friday that Zelensky had replaced the commander of the AFU ground forces. Pavlyuk was dismissed, and in his place was appointed commander of the grouping of troops "Kharkiv" General Mikhail Drapaty.

Earlier, on November 15, the former deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, retired General Serhiy Kryvonos, said on the air of the TV channel Kyiv 24 that Syrsky may be fired. He said that Bezuglya, who criticizes Syrskyy, was being used to check the mood in society. Kryvonos also added that the Kiev authorities are using Bezuglaya to shift the blame for strategic failures to the Ukrainian military.

Before that, on October 28, Bezuglaya called for Syrskyy to be fired for failures on the battlefield. The MP called Syrskyy the embodiment of a cruel egoistic "sovka" manager, noting the failures of the commander-in-chief on the Dnieper and in Zaporizhzhya.

On October 10, she called on Syrskyy to resign on his own after the Russian military destroyed another U.S. Patriot surface-to-air missile system (SAM).