Ukraine’s Zelensky promotes top army commander amid Kursk incursion
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Ukrainian commander-in-chief Oleksander Syrskyi (left) has been promoted to a four-star general from his previous rank of colonel-general.
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KYIV – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has promoted his top army commander to a four-star general, his office said on Aug 24, just weeks after Kyiv’s surprise incursion into Russia’s Kursk region.
Commander-in-chief Oleksander Syrskyi, 59, who had held the military rank of colonel-general, was promoted to the rank of general, the decree published on the presidential website said.
Ukraine launched an offensive into Russia’s Kursk region
While the incursion into Kursk is an embarrassment for Russia, Moscow's forces have inched forward in recent months against Ukrainian troops in the eastern Donetsk region.
General Syrskyi, who was born in 1965 in Russia’s Vladimir region, has lived in Ukraine since the 1980s.
He was appointed as Ukraine’s army chief
