Ukraine’s new army chief aiming to harness power of high-tech weapons

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Gen Oleksandr Syrski, look at a map during their visit to the front line city of Kupiansk, Kharkiv regionin November (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

Ukraine’s new military chief has said his immediate goals are to improve the rotation of troops out of the front lines and harness the power of new technology in the fight against Russia’s invasion.

Col Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi, who was previously the commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, spoke a day after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy put him in charge of the battlefield campaign against Russia’s invasion.