When in doubt, fire someone. From Anatol Lieven at responsiblestatecraft.org:
Zelensky’s sacking of the popular army chief is a colossal political gamble and reflects increasing desperation in Kyiv
President Volodymyr Zelensky’s dismissal of the Ukrainian army chief, General Valery Zaluzhny, is a colossal political gamble for Zelensky and seems to indicate an increasing mood of desperation in Kyiv. The background to this move lies in the failure of last year’s Ukrainian offensive, and the attempts both to shift blame and to draw up a new strategy that could promise Ukraine future victory.
The Ukrainian defeat last year led to a rather discreditable blame game in Washington, with the U.S. military, and some Ukrainians, suggesting that if Zaluzhny had taken their (supposed) advice and concentrated his forces to attack on a narrow front (rather than attacking in several places simultaneously), the Ukrainians could have broken through.
This is a rather odd argument, because it was just such attacks on narrow fronts that the Russian army tried several times immediately following the invasion, and that led to repeated disasters. It ignores the fact that just as U.S. satellite intelligence allowed the Ukrainians to identify local Russian concentrations and to concentrate in turn, so Russian satellite intelligence does the same when it is the Ukrainians attacking.
He could always promote them to Field Marshal like Der Führer did at Stalingrad with von Paulus! (s/)
I loves me some morale maintenance.
Morale über alles.
I blame Göring and that Demyansk Pocket air drop of supplies which worked well, Ivan caught on and lined the route to Stalingrad with AAA and fighters.
Also all of the Junkers Ju-52 trimotor supply planes were damaged or destroyed at Crete when they should have taken Malta.
Poor Rommel never got any good supplies/troops as the Eastern Front was priority one and Malta was a submarine and Royal Air Force stronghold.