“He understands well what is in the brigades”: Zelenskyi appointed Colonel Palis as the deputy head of the OP

Colonel Pavlo Palisa became the deputy head of the President’s Office – the corresponding decree was signed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyi on November 29.

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.

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.