European Solidarity faction calls for extraordinary closed Rada session devoted to arrest of military commanders
The European Solidarity faction has demanded an extraordinary meeting of the parliamentary committee on national security, defense and intelligence and a closed session of the Verkhovna Rada due to the arrests of military commanders.
“We insist on an extraordinary closed session of the committee on national security with the invitation of the leadership of the security forces, the Commander-in-Chief and the Minister of Defense. We also insist on a closed session of the Verkhovna Rada devoted to the analysis of the provision of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with weapons, the state of fortifications and mobilization,” the faction said in a statement published on the website of the political force on Thursday.
The European Solidarity faction believes that the parliament has no right to observe from the sidelines attempts to discredit the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The faction called the authorities' actions to detain military commanders an attempt to blame their own miscalculations in the insufficient provision of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with weapons, failures in the construction of fortifications on military personnel, and demanded an end to politically motivated persecution, the consequences of which could be irreversible.
"The Ukrainian Armed Forces are the guarantor of the preservation of Ukrainian statehood, and the current attacks on the Army demotivate soldiers and officers, tie the hands of mid-level commanders before making decisions. In fact, this is a message to all commanders: each of them can be hung on the hook of criminal cases and imprisoned with astronomical bail for difficult decisions, without which war is impossible," the statement says.
According to European Solidarity, today there is a need to unite around the Ukrainian Armed Forces, strengthen management and defense strategizing in order to stabilize the front line and be stronger in the eyes of the enemy and international partners.