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Brigadier General Oleksandr Hruzhevych lost his position after personnel changes in the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Former Chief of Staff of the Ground Forces Command Oleksandr Hruzhevych left his post and was moved to a reserve battalion. According to the authors of the publication, the reason was the systematic delaying of important decisions and unsatisfactory work.
The media report this.
Oleksandr Hruzhevych became another senior official from the Syrsky team who lost his post due to systematic stalling of critically important decisions and unsatisfactory performance.
Hruzhevych's operating principle was complete deference to top-down directives: “Hruzhevych sat and said that Oleksandr Stanyslavovych is my boss to everything.” As a result, he was removed and moved to a reserve battalion.
Commenting on these personnel changes, MP Maryana Bezuhla called Hruzhevych one of Syrsky’s closest generals, the ideologue of “busification,” opposed to the introduction of surveillance cameras for the Territorial Center for Recruitment and Social Programs, and a key figure in a system of official abuses.
Hruzhevych’s career jump looks atypical for the military system. The former commander of 53-th Separate Mechanized Brigade, after Syrsky was appointed commander of the Ground Forces, immediately became deputy chief of staff of the separate branch of service, bypassing the operational command link. Later, it was Hruzhevych among three deputies who received the rank of brigadier general. And in February 2024, after Syrsky came to the post of Chief of the General Staff, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Ground Forces—skirting standard service progression rules.
After such a high-profile removal from office and entry into the reserve, there are few options left for the former chief of staff. With this background, a scenario of a sudden “dive into scientific activity” and entering into a candidacy (adjunction) looks quite plausible as a continuation of his story.
It is worth paying attention to another participant in this personnel system—the Brigadier General Yuri Raltsev, deputy chief of staff of the Ground Forces Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. His further career path remains unclear.
In military circles, Raltsev has an extremely controversial reputation. Sources describe him as the “right hand” of Hruzhevych on issues of busification and the “left hand” of Colonel Gorbach, who directly supervised financial flows and conversion schemes. His entire career was tied not to combat units or the front but exclusively to the TCc system. 30 in September 2025 on Defender of Ukraine Day he was awarded the rank of brigadier general—at a time when combat officers with real frontline experience have been waiting for such ranks for years.
Anticorruption agencies have long had claims against Raltsev. In 2024 year, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) found unjustified assets and significant misstatements in his declaration when he held the position of deputy head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional TCc. In particular, the agency found fictitious expenses in the form of a “gift” to his father of 1,2 million hryvnias, although his official income would have permitted transferring no more than 363 thousand hryvnias.
In light of personnel purges and new approaches of military leadership, the probability that such a “valuable” cadre will remain in his post is extremely low. Therefore, the scenario in which Raltsev, following his colleagues, suddenly “discovers in himself a thirst for science” and retreats into an adjunct position, looks more than plausible.
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Brigadier General Oleksandr Hruzhevych lost his position after personnel changes in the Armed Forces of Ukraine
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