Russian official on how the new commander of the Ukrainian army escaped from the besieged Mariupol

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Monday that he was sacking the commander of the Ukrainian army’s joint forces, General Yuriy Sodol, accused of incompetence in managing the war against Russia.

He was replaced by Andrii Hnatov, deputy commander of the Ukrainian forces on the Southern Front, who played a key role in recapturing a large part of the Kherson region.

“Hnatov is a living example of a Ukrainian warrior: a Nazi fighter and, of course, a coward,” Volodymyr Rokov told Russian state media.

According to him, “the general escaped from Mariupol under the guise of a refugee, dressed in women’s clothes, disguised as a woman”, while “he left all his subordinates behind”.

Mariupol, a port city on the shores of the Sea of ​​Azov in the Donetsk region, was declared independent by President Vladimir Putin before the Russian invasion began, and was captured by Moscow’s troops in 2022 after a long siege.

Rokov called Hnadow a war criminal, noting that “war crimes were committed in Mariupol in the spring of 2022, on the orders of this general.”

The Russian official added, “Sooner or later, the new commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will respond to Russian law.”

The Russians sentenced him to 28 years in prison

The Supreme Court of the self-styled Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) sentenced, in absentia, Hnato, the commander of the operational group of “Primory” troops, to 28 years in a maximum security colony.

According to the prosecutor’s office, the investigation and the court established that from July to September 2019, Hnatov gave the order to bomb the southern settlements of the DPR. As a result, two civilians were injured, one of whom later died. Also, 19 houses were destroyed or damaged.

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