President Zelenskyy dismisses Mykola Oleshchuk, states nation requires to ‘protect workers’.
Published On 30 Aug 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired the leader of the nation’s air force, 4 days after an F-16 warplane that Ukraine got from its Western partners crashed throughout a Russian barrage and eliminated the pilot.
The order to dismiss Mykola Oleshchuk was released on the governmental site on Friday.
“We requirement to secure individuals. Protect workers. Take care of all our soldiers,” Zelenskyy stated in an address minutes after the order was released. He stated Ukraine requires to reinforce its army on the command level.
Anatolii Kryvonozhko was designated acting air force leader, the army’s basic personnel stated.
The termination came on the verysame day that Oleshchuk directed scathing criticism at a legislator who is deputy head of the Ukrainian parliament’s defence committee for her declares that the F-16 was downed by a Patriot air-defense system. Ukraine has got an undefined number of the US-made systems.
Mariana Bezuhla mentioned unnamed sources for her claim and required penalty for those accountable for the mistake.
Oleshchuk implicated Bezuhla of libeling the air force a