President Volodymyr Zelensky appoints new commanders

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed new commanders of the Ground Forces, the Joint Forces, the Air Assault Forces, and the Territorial Defense Forces.

The relevant decrees were published on the official website of the Office of the President of Ukraine.

First and foremost, in accordance with Decree No. 71/2024, the President appointed Yuriy Sodol as Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In turn, by Decree No. 70/2024, Zelensky dismissed Serhiy Naiev from the post of Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Lieutenant General, Hero of Ukraine Yuriy Sodol has been the Commander of the Ukrainian Marine Corps since 2018 and has now taken up a new position.

By Decree No. 69/2024, the President of Ukraine appointed Lieutenant General Oleksandr Pavliuk as Commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.

From 2021 to 2022, he served as Commander of the Joint Forces Operation. On February 14, 2023, the government appointed him first deputy to the then-head of the Ministry of Defense, Oleksii Reznikov.

The President dismissed Maksym Myrhorodskyi from the post of Commander of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces by Decree No. 72/2024.

Instead, Ihor Skybiuk was appointed the Commander of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces by Decree No. 73/2024.

Prior to that, in 2023, he served as Chief of Staff – Deputy Commander of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces.

By his recent decree No. 74/2024, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, appointed Ihor Plakhuta as the Commander of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Major General Ihor Plahuta was the commander of the 169th Training Center of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, the Commander of the Southern Territorial Command of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.