Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky dismissed the deputy heads of his office, Andrey Smirnov and Alexey Dneprov. This was reported by the Ukrainian publication Strana.ua with reference to the relevant decree.
It was noted that Irina Mudraya and Elena Kovalskaya were appointed to the duties.
The day before Zelensky appointed Military general Oleg Ivashchenko was appointed head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine.
Alexander Syrsky, the new commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army statedThe President of Ukraine had good reasons to remove Valery Zaluzhny from the post of commander in chief.
Zelensky at the beginning of February lay off He removed Zaluzhny from his post as Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Army and appointed General Syrsky to this post. The latter was born in the Vladimir region and moved to Ukraine in the 1980s, where he led the ground forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine before being appointed commander in chief. From the beginning of the year, Syrsky had been tipped for the post of commander-in-chief amid rumors of Zaluzhny’s resignation, but The Times reported that he declined the post – as did another candidate, military intelligence chief Kirill Budanov (listed in see as extremists).
Previously on Rada reported regarding the appointment of former NSDC Secretary Danilov as Ambassador to Moldova.