Ukraine’s Zelenskyy fires senior army commander, no cause given – Nationwide | Globalnews.ca

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday fired a senior army commander serving to lead the combat towards Russian troops within the nation’s embattled east however gave no cause for the transfer.

In a one-line decree, Zelenskyy introduced the dismissal of Eduard Moskalyov as commander of the joint forces of Ukraine, that are engaged in battles within the Donbas area.

Zelenskyy talked about Moskalyov in a each day tackle on Friday when itemizing the army commanders he had spoken to. Moskalyov had been within the put up since March 2022, shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine.

Neither the joint forces’ Fb nor Twitter accounts made any point out of the dismissal.

Russian forces are making concerted efforts to seize the 2 jap areas that make up the Donbas, and Zelenskyy has in latest weeks variously described the army scenario within the east as tough and painful.

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Professional-Moscow models are focusing their efforts on the town of Bakhmut, mounting repeated assaults regardless of struggling what Ukrainian and Western officers say are heavy casualties.

In a Fb put up, the Ukrainian armed forces’ normal employees stated Russian troops had carried out a number of unsuccessful assaults within the Bakhmut space on Sunday.

(Reporting by David Ljunggren; modifying by Jonathan Oatis)