Hnatov’s task is to add more combat experience to planning and actively build corps system, - Zelenskyy
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke about why he appointed Major General Andrii Hnatov as Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
He said this in an evening video address, Censor.NET reports.
Zelenskyy noted that the decision to make personnel changes in the General Staff was made together with Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi and Defence Minister Rustem Umierov.
"He is a combatant, and his task is to gain more combat experience, the experience of our brigades in planning operations, defensive and offensive, as well as to build up the corps system more actively. Everything that our brigades have learned from the war should be implemented one hundred per cent at the planning level," the President stressed.
Zelenskyy also added that General Anatolii Barhylevych had been transferred from the post of Chief of the General Staff to the General Inspectorate of the Ministry of Defence.
Earlier it was reported that Zelenskyy had appointed Major General Andrii Hnatov as Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
