{"id":1422838,"date":"2026-07-29T22:50:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/drapatiy-updates-military-command-first-personnel-decisions\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T22:50:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T19:50:50","slug":"drapatiy-updates-military-command-first-personnel-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/drapatiy-updates-military-command-first-personnel-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Drapatiy updates military command: first personnel decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Mykhailo Drapatiy, has begun personnel changes in the army. According to sources, he has already decided to dismiss several commanders and also reinstated Shamil Krutkov, commander of the 93rd separate mechanized brigade.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Babel&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/babel.ua\/texts\/128959-pershi-kadrovi-rishennya-mihayla-drapatogo-u-komanduvanni-suhoputnih-viysk-sil-logistiki-ta-v-93-ombr-babel-zibrav-podrobici\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">writes<\/a> about this with reference to interlocutors in the General Staff.<\/p>\n<p> According to the publication, Drapatiy transferred the Chief of Staff &#8211; Deputy Commander of the Ground Forces, Major General Oleksandr Gruzevych, who was considered close to the former Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky, to the reserve battalion.<\/p>\n<p> Also, according to sources, Major General Volodymyr Karpenko has left the post of Commander of the Logistics Forces. Yuriy Pogribny is to temporarily fulfill his duties.<\/p>\n<p> In addition, General Andriy Malinovsky has ceased work at the General Staff and is returning to the position of Commander of the Missile Forces and Artillery.<\/p>\n<p> Another decision was the reinstatement of Shamil Krutkov, commander of the 93rd separate mechanized brigade &#8220;Kholodny Yar&#8221;, who had previously been suspended after a service check.<\/p>\n<p> The General Staff or the Ministry of Defense have not yet officially announced these personnel changes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1653\" data-end=\"1819\"> 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Mykhailo Drapatiy, has begun personnel changes in the army. According to sources, he has already decided to dismiss several commanders and also reinstated Shamil Krutkov, commander of the 93rd separate mechanized brigade. &#8220;Babel&#8221; writes about this with reference to interlocutors in the General Staff. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1420263,"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-1422838","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\/1422838","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=1422838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1420263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}