Bild: Budanov and Syrsky refused to replace Zaluzhny as commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Zelensky was forced to abandon the decision to dismiss the commander after the entire top of the army threatened to resign.
Earlier, The New York Times reported that Ukrainian authorities postponed the dismissal due to an information leak. It is noted that the commander of the ground forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Colonel-General Alexander Syrski, and the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kirill Budanovsky, refused to hold the position of commander- in-chief.