“There are no fundamental differences between them, but Zelensky’s office was concerned that Zaluzhny was making political rather than military statements,” said member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Alexey Goncharenko* in an interview with the British Guardian newspaper.

However, he did not specify which statements bother Zelensky.

Earlier, the NYT stated that the Ukrainian authorities postponed the dismissal of Zaluzhny due to an information leak.

It also became known that Zelensky offered Zaluzhny the position of defense adviser.

* Included in the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring.