{"id":1419692,"date":"2026-07-20T18:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/head-of-the-armed-forces-budanov-made-a-statement-amid-reports-of-possible-personnel-changes-in-the-armed-forces-of-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T18:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:33:08","slug":"head-of-the-armed-forces-budanov-made-a-statement-amid-reports-of-possible-personnel-changes-in-the-armed-forces-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/head-of-the-armed-forces-budanov-made-a-statement-amid-reports-of-possible-personnel-changes-in-the-armed-forces-of-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of the Armed Forces Budanov made a statement amid reports of possible personnel changes in the Armed Forces of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>OP Chairman Kyrylo Budanov stated that &#8220;the position of society has been heard&#8221; and promised that &#8220;there will be results.&#8221; His statement came amid active discussion of possible personnel changes in the military leadership.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1520\" data-end=\"1556\"> Budanov <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kyrylo.budanov.official\/posts\/pfbid0e54Qu2LRUfgUQdGbe5qB2o69wMtP4jgZgFJ9Ez9kaY7Ly6gTyyHuFr6Pm5wHs2csl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a> about this on social networks.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1558\" data-end=\"1709\"> According to him, society&#8217;s emotional reaction to the latest internal changes is understandable, because the indifference of Ukrainians helps the state survive.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1711\" data-end=\"1788\"> &#8220;The position of society has been heard. Work is underway. There will be results,&#8221; he emphasized.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1790\" data-end=\"1926\"> Budanov also called on Ukrainians not to allow internal conflicts and not to &#8220;hate&#8221; each other, emphasizing that this is exactly what Russia expects.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1928\" data-end=\"2127\"> At the same time, &#8220;Ukrainian Pravda&#8221;, citing sources in the government, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/news\/2026\/07\/20\/8044987\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that President Volodymyr Zelensky is allegedly looking for a candidate for the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to replace Oleksandr Syrsky.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2129\" data-end=\"2376\"> There is currently no official confirmation of this information. <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelenskyy-proviv-seriiu-zustrichey-iz-komandyramy-u-merezhi-zahovoryly-pro-mozhlyvi-kadrovi-zminy\/\">The day before, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated that General Oleksandr Syrsky continues to perform the duties of Commander-in-Chief,<\/a> and any reports of his dismissal are untrue.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OP Chairman Kyrylo Budanov stated that &#8220;the position of society has been heard&#8221; and promised that &#8220;there will be results.&#8221; His statement came amid active discussion of possible personnel changes in the military leadership. Budanov wrote about this on social networks. According to him, society&#8217;s emotional reaction to the latest internal changes is understandable, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1414984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76885],"class_list":["post-1419692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1414984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}