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[Regnum] Brigadier General Gennady Shapovalov was appointed commander of the Operational Command “South” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The command announced this on April 16 on social networks.
The new commander was introduced to the personnel by the Commander of the Ground Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Alexander Pavlyuk.
Previously, this post was held by Andrey Kovalchuk. Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexei Goncharenko (listed in Russia as a terrorist and extremist) announced his dismissal from his position on his Telegram channel. The parliamentarian wrote that the commander of the operational command “West”, Sergei Litvinov, was also fired. At the same time, Goncharenko expressed the opinion that these are “not the last changes.”
According to official information from the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Shapovalov was born in 1978 in the Kirovograd region. In 2000, he graduated from the Institute of Tank Forces of the Kharkov State Polytechnic University, and also in 2012 from the Command and Staff Institute for the Use of NBU Forces.
In addition, Shapovalov studied at the US Army War College. Previously, he commanded a separate motorized infantry brigade named after. Yakov Handzyuk. In March 2022, he was promoted to brigadier general.
As Regnum reported, Goncharenko announced the dismissal of Sergei Litvinov and Andrei Kovalchuk from their posts as commanders of the operational commands of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “West” and “South” on April 9, but there was no official confirmation then.
On March 26, the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, signed a decree dismissing Alexey Danilov from the post of Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC). By another decree, he appointed Alexander Litvinenko, who previously held the position of head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, to this post. Later that day, Zelensky called Danilov’s dismissal a continuation of the reboot of the control system.
In February 2024, Zelensky dismissed Valery Zaluzhny from the post of commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and appointed Alexander Syrsky to this position. He explained this decision by military failures during the widely announced counter-offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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