Muistelen nähneeni Pekka Toverin toteavan twiitissä, että Syrskyi olis myös Naton koulut käynyt.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksandr_Syrskyi
"Oleksander Syrsky received his first military education back in Soviet times in Moscow, where in 1982 he graduated from the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School. Spiegel called this detail of his biography "one of the bitter ironies of the present war".
Syrsky has been serving Ukraine since the first years of its independence. Already in 1996, the future commander of the Ground Forces graduated from the Academy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and in 2005 - the National Defense Academy of Ukraine, receiving the highest marks in both universities.
Throughout the years, Syrsky was gradually entrusted with increasingly large-scale and responsible tasks: he went from a platoon commander to one of the key figures in the course of the ATO / JFO, and then to overall ground commander during the course of the full-scale Russian war.
In the 1990s, Syrsky commanded one of the brigades of the 6th Division of the National Guard of Ukraine in Chuhuiv. Later he became the commander of the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade in Bila Tserkva.
Shortly before the Revolution of Dignity, it was Syrsky — at that time was already the first deputy head of the Main Command Center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine — who was one of the key figures involved in deepening NATO-Ukraine cooperation, and in overseeing the military’s upcoming reforms. He was involved in the development of a strategy for the transition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the standards of the Alliance.
After the flight of ex-president Viktor Yanukovych from Ukraine, the annexation of Crimea and Russia's invasion of Donbas in early 2014, Syrsky took up the position of chief of staff of the Antiterrorist Operation (ATO) — what the Ukrainian government called the front line against the Donbas puppet authorities.
Even then, the general had the opportunity to study the enemy in combat conditions: Syrsky was one of the key Ukrainian commanders during the most difficult battles for the Debaltseve bridgehead in January-February 2015. At that time, according to the Defense Express news outlet, he led Ukrainian units during the fighting in Vuhlehirsk, the village of Ridkodub and during the attempt to recapture Lohvynove, and also coordinated the Bars group, which covered the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the city of Debaltseve itself. For participation in those battles, Syrsky was awarded the Order of Bohdan Khmelnitsky 3rd degree. He later received the rank of lieutenant general.
Syrsky was actively involved in the defense of Ukraine from Russian invaders not only during the period of the most heated battles, but throughout the eight years before the full-scale invasion.
In 2016-2019, he was the head of several high-level departments, including the Joint Operational Headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (twice in different periods) and the commander of the Anti-Terrorist Operation and the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) in the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts (May-August 2019).
Three years ago, on Aug. 5, 2019, Syrsky was appointed commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He still holds this position, and in this role, the Colonel-General met the day of the full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022.
AS the head of the Ground Forces, Syrsky continued reforms that eventually helped the Ukrainian army to be more flexible on the battlefield and go ahead in its development — much further than their Russian counterparts.
Among these reforms has been the transformation of military command and control bodies in the Ground Forces.
“There has been a separation of the functions of formation, training, development of troops, technical equipment and comprehensive support from the functions of management and control,” Defense Express explained back in 2020 in one of its articles about Syrsky.
“This is fundamentally different from what was envisaged by the Soviet command and control system, which until recently guided the Ukrainian army. With this distribution, when everyone specializes in specific things, you can achieve much more efficiency at each of these levels.”
