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title: "Ukraine's popular former army chief Zaluzhnyi appointed ambassador to UK"
url: https://moldova1.md/p/28574/ukraine-s-popular-former-army-chief-zaluzhnyi-appointed-ambassador-to-uk
published: 2024-05-10T10:42:46Z
language: en
section: "International"
source: moldova1.md
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# Ukraine's popular former army chief Zaluzhnyi appointed ambassador to UK

> Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday appointed Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the country’s former commander-in-chief, as Kyiv’s ambassador to the UK, Reuters reports.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday appointed Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the country’s former commander-in-chief, as Kyiv’s ambassador to the UK, Reuters reports.

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Zaluzhnyi’s appointment, which was announced in a decree issued by the Ukrainian president, comes a day after Zelenskyy removed him from military service “on health grounds with the right to wear a military uniform.”

In March, Zelenskyy named Zaluzhnyi as Kyiv’s ambassador to the UK, saying in an address that the former commander-in-chief told him that “this is the direction he would like to take – diplomacy.”

Zaluzhnyi was dismissed as commander-in-chief on Feb. 9 after Zelenskyy declared the need for a “reset” in the country’s leadership. He took over the post in July 2021, before Russia's "special military operation" in Feb. 2022.​​​​​​