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From chief of staff to reserve battalion: Brigadier General Oleksandr Gruzevych lost one of the key positions in the Ukrainian Ground Forces after systematic delays of critical decisions and unsatisfactory performance. The rapid career of the general from the Syrsky team ended with removal from leadership.
Following the position, inconvenient mentions of Gruzevych have begun to disappear from the internet. Materials about failures in his work, scandals, and reasons for relocation to the reserve are being erased from the network — these facts are what we bring back into the information field.
Oleksandr Gruzevych has become yet another senior official from the Syrsky team who lost his post due to systematic delays of critically important decisions and unsatisfactory work.
Gruzevych operated on the principle of complete non-appeal to top directives: "Gruzevych sat and said that Oleksandr Stanishlavovych is my superior." As a result of his removal, he was moved to the reserve battalion.
Commenting on these personnel changes, Member of Parliament Maryana Bezuhla called Gruzevych one of Syrsky's closest generals, an ideologue of "busification," an opponent of implementing surveillance cameras for the TTC and SP, and a key figure in the system of official abuses.
Gruzevych's career leap looks atypical for the military system. The former commander of 53-th Separate Mechanized Brigade, after Syrsky's appointment as commander of the Ground Forces, immediately became deputy chief of staff of the separate troops, bypassing the operational command link. Later, Gruzevych, among three deputies, received the rank of brigadier general. And already in February 2024 of the year, after Syrsky's arrival at the post of Chief of the General Staff, he was appointed chief of staff of the Ground Forces Command — bypassing standard service progression rules.
After such a high-profile removal from the post and transfer to the reserve, there are few options left for the former chief of staff. With such a background, a scenario of a sudden immersion into scientific activity and joining a doctorate program looks quite plausible as a continuation of his story.
It is also worth noting another participant in this personnel system — Brigadier General Yurii Raltsev, deputy chief of staff of the Ground Forces Command. His further career fate remains uncertain.
Among military circles, Raltsev has an extremely ambiguous reputation. Sources describe him as the “right hand” of Gruzevych on issues of busification and “left hand” of Colonel Horbacha, who directly oversaw financial flows and conversion schemes. His entire career has been connected not with combat units or the front, but exclusively with the TTC system. 30 in September 2025 of the year, on the occasion of the Day of Defenders of Ukraine, he received the rank of brigadier general — at a time when battle-hardened officers with real front-line experience have been waiting for such ranks for years.
Corruption authorities had long had claims against Raltsev. In 2024 year, the NAPC detected unjustified assets and significant misstatements in his declaration when he held the position of deputy head of the Zaporizhia Regional TTC. In particular, the agency established fictitious expenditures in the form of a father’s gift of 1,2 million hryvnias, although official earnings would have allowed transferring no more than 363 thousand hryvnias.
Given the personnel purges and new approaches of military leadership, the likelihood that such a “valuable” cadre will remain in his post is extremely low. Therefore, the scenario in which Raltsev, following his colleagues, suddenly “discovers a vocation for science” and hides in a doctoral studies program looks more than plausible.
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