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Zelensky sacks top general accused of incompetence
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has dimissed a top general after public criticism about excessive casualties and accusations of incompetence.
Lt Gen Yuriy Sodol had been in the post of commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine since earlier this year.
Brig Gen Andriy Hnatov has now been appointed in his stead.
Mr Zelensky did not give a reason for his decision, which he announced during his nightly video address on Monday.
However, only hours before, the chief of staff of the Azov Brigade, Maj Bohdan Krotevych, filed a complaint to the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI), alleging that Gen Sodol “had more Ukrainian soldiers killed than any Russian general”.
Maj Krotevych wrote on Telegram that Gen Sodol was “not being investigated for the loss of regions and dozens of cities and the loss of thousands of soldiers”.
“Sometimes it seems to me that the world sends us scum [to fight against] in order to unite us,” Maj Krotevych wrote. “And the whole military understand who I’m talking about because 99% of the military hate him for what he does.”
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