2023-11-03 19:52:00
Personnel change in the military Zelensky appoints a phantom as head of the special forces
November 3, 2023, 8:52 p.m. Listen to article
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President Zelenskyy replaces the commander of the Ukrainian special forces. Nothing more than his name is known regarding the new commander. According to Zelenskyj, he is an experienced veteran.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Colonel Serhiy Lupanchuk as the new commander of the special operations forces by presidential decree. In his video speech, Zelensky later described Lupanchuk as an experienced officer with combat experience who might help the special forces become more effective. It is the second personnel change in this position of the Kiev military leadership since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022.
According to Zelensky, the previous head of the special operations forces, General Viktor Horenko, will now carry out special tasks within the HUR military intelligence service. Horenko had held the post since the end of July last year.
Horenko told the news portal Ukrainska Pravda that he learned of his dismissal from the media. The reasons are unknown to him. The Ukrainian commander-in-chief, Valeriy Zalushnyj, also did not submit a request for his dismissal. According to Ukrainian media, there is no publicly available information regarding Horenko’s successor Lupanchuk. There is also no known photo of Lupantschuk.
The special operations forces became an independent part of the Ukrainian military in 2016. Your soldiers often conduct reconnaissance missions and covert operations behind enemy lines. The force claimed responsibility for attacks on Russian military airfields in Luhansk and Berdyansk on October 17, in which several helicopters were destroyed. At the beginning of October, the special forces claimed an attack on a supply train in occupied Melitopol.
Ukraine has been defending itself once morest a Russian war of aggression for more than 20 months. After a Ukrainian counteroffensive that fell short of Western expectations, military experts see Kiev currently trapped in trench warfare once morest Russia.
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