(Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday he had appointed Brigadier-General Andriy Hnatov as commander of the Joint Forces of Ukraine’s armed forces, replacing Lieutenant-General Yuri Sodol. Zelenskiy’s announcement, made during his nightly video address, followed a series of reports that Sodol had performed badly in Ukraine’s more than two-year-old war against Russia. (Reporting […]
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(Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday he had appointed Brigadier-General Andriy Hnatov as commander of the Joint Forces of Ukraine’s armed forces, replacing Lieutenant-General Yuri Sodol.
Zelenskiy’s announcement, made during his nightly video address, followed a series of reports that Sodol had performed badly in Ukraine’s more than two-year-old war against Russia.
(Reporting by Ron Popeski and Oleksandr Kozhukhar; Editing by Chris Reese)