Volodymyr Zelensky has sacked a top commander accused of “killing more Ukrainians than any Russian general”.
The Ukrainian president said he was replacing Lt-Gen Yurii Sodol as the commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces, in his nightly address to the nation late on Monday.
The dismissal came after Bohdan Krotevych, chief of staff of the Azov brigade, called for an investigation into the commander’s poor leadership in a withering letter to Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation.
“I wrote a letter to the SBI calling for an investigation into one military general who, in my opinion, killed more Ukrainian soldiers than any Russian general,” Mr Krotevych later wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
“Sometimes I think the world sends us scumbags to rally us. And all the military now understand what kind of person I’m talking about, because 99 per cent of the military hate him for what he does,” he added, without naming Lt-Gen Sodol.