{"id":1451262,"date":"2026-10-10T12:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T09:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/oleg-goncharuk-has-been-appointed-head-of-the-south-forces-group-what-is-known-about-the-personnel-rotation\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T12:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T09:32:15","slug":"oleg-goncharuk-has-been-appointed-head-of-the-south-forces-group-what-is-known-about-the-personnel-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/oleg-goncharuk-has-been-appointed-head-of-the-south-forces-group-what-is-known-about-the-personnel-rotation\/","title":{"rendered":"Oleg Goncharuk has been appointed head of the South Forces Group: what is known about the personnel rotation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brigadier General Oleh Goncharuk has become the new commander of the &#8220;South&#8221; group of forces. He replaces Maksym Sidorenko.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The press secretary of the South group of forces, Maksym Kravchuk, reported this in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/news\/2026\/10\/10\/8057330\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a commentary<\/a> to Ukrainska Pravda.<\/p>\n<p> According to him, a planned rotation of the commander of the South Group of Forces took place. This position is temporary, and appointments are made on a rotating basis.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, Goncharuk\u2019s regular position remains Chief of Staff of the Operational Command \u201cSouth\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> Following personnel changes, Maksim Sidorenko will continue to serve as commander of the South Operational Command.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/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>Brigadier General Oleh Goncharuk has become the new commander of the &#8220;South&#8221; group of forces. He replaces Maksym Sidorenko. The press secretary of the South group of forces, Maksym Kravchuk, reported this in a commentary to Ukrainska Pravda. According to him, a planned rotation of the commander of the South Group of Forces took place. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1451256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1451262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451262","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1451256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}