After nationwide protests Oleksandr Syrskyi is to be replaced in reshuffle and popular defence minister returns to government
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired Ukraine’s commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi and offered a “prominent position” to the defence minister he sacked last week in a move that sparked nationwide protests.
In a late-night TV address, Zelenskyy said he was appointing Mykhailo Drapati, a popular and innovative general, as the new head of Ukraine’s armed forces. Drapati would oversee a reorganisation of the army’s command structure, Ukraine’s president said.
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This article was originally published by The Guardian and written by Luke Harding in Dnipro.
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