"To appoint Major General Galagan Grigory Anatolyevich commander of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine," the document says on the website of the President of Ukraine.
He replaced at this post Lieutenant General Igor Lunev, who was dismissed on the same day by another decree.
The press service of Zelensky explained that such a decision was made in connection with a change in the tasks of the Joint Forces Operation in the context of a truce in Donbass.
“There will be more provocations ... therefore, both the command and the personnel of the Special Operations Forces should work more to prevent them and prevent them. It is also necessary to introduce more aggressive measures to counter the challenges that arise, "the Ukrainian president said in a statement.
At the end of July, Zelensky replaced the head of the delegation in the trilateral contact group on Donbass: the first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, was appointed to replace the former Ukrainian leader Leonid Kuchma.