Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky This Tuesday he relieved the head of the National Security and Defense CouncilOleksí Danílov, whose place shall be occupied by the till now head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Oleksandr Litvinenko.
According to the decrees signed by Zelensky, Oleg Ivashchenko, who was beforehand deputy head of the Ukrainian Military Intelligence (GUR), will take over overseas intelligence.
Danilov had been appointed head of the National Security and Defense Council on October 3, 2019, whereas Livtinenko headed overseas intelligence from July 23, 2021.
In 2022 some media wrote that this entered into rising conflicts with the chief of staff of Zelensky, Andrí Yermak and a sequence of different shut collaborators of the president, in order that he was progressively faraway from the president’s zone of affect.
Among the most notable modifications just lately launched by Zelensky is the dismissal on February 8 of Valeri Zaluzhni as commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine after contradicting the president in a number of public statements. His place was taken over by Oleksandr Sirski, till then commander of the Ground Forces.
