President Zelensky and Western media have praised General Oleksandr Syrsky as the 'Hero of Kiev,' but among the soldiers, he is known by the far less flattering nickname 'Butcher Of Bakhmut.'

The mainstream media has devoted the better part of a day to elevating Oleksandr Syrsky, the recently appointed commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, to the status of a contemporary von Clausewitz. They have hailed Syrsky as the commander who was nearly solely responsible for defending K...