Zelensky fired Muzhenko and appointed a new head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky signed a decree by which he dismissed Chief of the General Staff Viktor Muzhenko, and Ruslan Khomchak was immediately appointed to this position, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This is stated in decree published today the Ukrainian president.
Ruslan Khomchak - Ukrainian military leader, chief of staff - first deputy commander of the Ground Forces of Ukraine since 2016, lieutenant general, commander of the operational command "South". Participant in the war in Donbass.
For some time he served as commander of sector “B” of the so-called forces. “ATO”. Since 2016 - Chief of Staff - First Deputy Commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.
Ukrainian media also reported that Khomchak, as commander of the troops of sector “B” and the operational command “South”, with a group of Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters, escaped from encirclement near Ilovaisk in 2014.
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