““I need just such a person to accurately know information directly from the front on a daily basis,” the president said”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
He also mentioned this in his evening address on Friday. Zelensky pointed out that Palisa is a combat commander who heads the 93rd separate mechanized brigade “Kholodny Yar”.
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“He understands well what is in the brigades, at the front, and I need just such a person to know exactly the information directly from the front on a daily basis,” the president said.
Pavlo Palisa is a colonel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a graduate of the Lviv Institute of Ground Forces (now the National Academy of Ground Forces named after Hetman Pyotr Sahaidachny) and the Command and Staff College of the US Army.
Pavlo Palisa
In 2023, he became a Knight of the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, third degree.
Today, the president announced that Major General Mykhailo Drapaty became the new commander of the Ground Forces. Also, the commander of the 95th separate amphibious assault brigade, Oleg Apostol, became the deputy commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces.