President's Office appoints "supervisors" of counteroffensive brigades to help them with manning

The Office of the President of Ukraine has appointed "supervisors" responsible for the brigades of the upcoming counteroffensive, including top officials and MPs, who are to help them "cover" all their needs.

Source: Ukrainska Pravda (UP) article "Waiting for the counteroffensive. How the Armed Forces of Ukraine are preparing for the liberation of the territories and how the leaked Pentagon documents affect Ukraine's plans"

Quote: "How seriously Zelenskyy's team takes the need to win at all costs can be seen in one interesting non-public meeting that took place on Bankova Street in early April.

More than ten people were invited to Yermak's meeting: several deputy heads of the President’s Office, heads of law enforcement agencies, top managers from the state banking and energy sectors, several ministers and MPs who had proven their effectiveness during the full-scale war.

For obvious security reasons, UP decided not to publish the names of those present so as not to expose them to additional danger.

At the meeting, the head of the President's Office told those present that each of them had a big personal task from the president: Zelenskyy has decided that these trusted people should deal with the issue of manning new brigades for the counteroffensive.

After a short report by Yermak, his advisor Dariia Zarivna handed out several sheets of paper with infographics on the needs of their brigades to each of the participants."

Details: In essence, the article says that the President’s Office decided who and what team to assign.

"The participants of the meeting are responsible for the rapid manning of the brigades; what the brigades lack must be found by the ‘supervisor’. No matter how or where, the issues must be resolved," the authors of the article note.

"This is actually a good idea of Zelenskyy's. These are his people, and they will be able to help the military really quickly. And the president also gets another channel of communication with these brigades directly, so no soldier or official will be able to report to Bankova Street that everything is fine when, in fact, he has real problems there. And you can't even imagine what a plus this is," a member of the president's team explained to UP.

As the sources in the President’s Office state, this approach to manning the brigades in no way indicates distrust of the military but rather should help them as much as possible.

"Many officials and managers know exactly how to set up supply chains for what the brigades need here and now. You should understand that this often involves political connections at home and abroad. All this should speed up the equipping of the fighters and provide a parallel channel of communication from the rank-and-file," explains the source on Bankova Street.

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