Zelensky to sign decree on Zaluzhny's dismissal by end of week - CNN

Zelensky to sign decree on Zaluzhny's dismissal by end of week - CNN

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By the end of the week, President Zelensky is expected to sign a decree dismissing Valeriy Zaluzhny from the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

By the end of this week, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will sign a decree dismissing the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhnyy, CNN reports , citing a source, UNN writes. 

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One of CNN's sources said that no official announcement of Zaluzhny's dismissal has been made yet, but a presidential decree is expected by the end of the week. 

According to one of the sources, at a small meeting in his office on Monday, which was also attended by Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, the President said that "he decided to dismiss the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces." 

In the conversation, Zelensky offered Zaluzhnyi another position, but he rejected it, CNN reports. Then the President emphasized that the fact that Zaluzhnyi refused a new position does not change the fact that he is being fired from his current one. 

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One source told CNN that two names are being discussed as possible contenders for the post of Commander-in-Chief.

One of them is Kirill Budanov, the head of the GRU.  In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, when asked if he was going to become the new Commander-in-Chief, Budanov said no, suggesting that he would hardly be talking to CNN at this point if such an appointment had just been made.

"We are in a state of war, and all sides are using all available means, including information warfare," the DIU chief added. 

The other candidate is Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrsky, Commander of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 

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