Zelensky Replaces National Guard Commander After Dnipro Shooting
Mykola Balan has been dismissed from his post.
President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed National Guard commander Colonel General Mykola Balan and appointed Yuriy Lebid as acting commander.
“Dismiss Mykola Ivanovych Balan from the post of commander of the National Guard of Ukraine” and “Appoint Lieutenant General Yuriy Anatoliyovych Lebid as acting commander of the National Guard of Ukraine,” the presidential decrees say.
On January 27, National Guard commander Colonel General Mykola Balan submitted a resignation letter in connection with a shooting at a plant in Dnipro carried out by a National Guard soldier.
Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi submitted a proposal to the president to appoint Lieutenant General Yuriy Lebid, deputy commander of the National Guard of Ukraine, as acting commander of the National Guard.
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