“The military leadership claims that “specialists in acute shortage… were not planned and are not planned to be transferred””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“The situation at the front is not easy, there is a shortage of infantrymen in many areas. The decision to strengthen ground brigades on the front line at the expense of servicemen from units of other branches and types of the Armed Forces is a forced step by the military leadership to strengthen our defense,” the General Staff of the Armed Forces said in a comment.
At the same time, the military leadership claims that “the acute shortage of specialists of the Air Force’s engineering and aviation service, who maintain aircraft, was not planned and is not planned to be transferred to infantry units.”
“It should be emphasized that the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has prohibited the transfer from their positions of specialists in high-tech specialties and those who have undergone training abroad on foreign models of weapons and military equipment,” the General Staff said.
Earlier, reports began to spread in social networks that specialists from the Air Force were being transferred en masse to the infantry. On January 14, the publication “Ukrainian Pravda” wrote that the last order of Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi regarding the transfer of personnel was sent to the military units of the Air Force on January 11. According to the interlocutor of the publication, according to this order, more than 5,000 soldiers should be transferred to the Ground Forces.