--- title: "Zelensky Sacks Zaluzhuny- Syrskyi Candidate To Replace" type: "post" post_id: "5559" slug: "zelensky-sacks-zaluzhuny-syrskyi-candidate-to-replace" canonical: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2024/02/08/zelensky-sacks-zaluzhuny-syrskyi-candidate-to-replace/" markdown_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2024/02/08/zelensky-sacks-zaluzhuny-syrskyi-candidate-to-replace.md" json_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2024/02/08/zelensky-sacks-zaluzhuny-syrskyi-candidate-to-replace.json" txt_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2024/02/08/zelensky-sacks-zaluzhuny-syrskyi-candidate-to-replace.txt" published: "2024-02-08T17:26:58+00:00" modified: "2024-02-08T17:26:58+00:00" author: "penny2" categories: - "Uncategorized" tags: - "NATO" - "Russia" - "Ukraine" - "US" site_name: "PFYT2" publisher: "" language: "en-US" generator: "easyPress Markdown" generator_version: "1.0.6" --- **Let’s see how this works out for Zelensky?** [**Syrskyi is main candidate to replace Zaluzhnyi as Commander-in-Chief**](https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/02/8/7441005/) > T**`he most likely candidate to replace Valerii Zaluzhnyi as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander of the Ground Forces of Ukraine.`** [Euractiv](https://www.euractiv.com/section/europe-s-east/news/zelenskyy-replaces-ukraines-top-general-zaluzhny/) ***Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy removed on Thursday (8 February) Ukraine’s top commander Valery Zaluzhny, saying that the army needed “updated leadership”, in a move that ended months of tensions between the two top officials.***“ ***I thanked him for two years of defense of Ukraine,” Zelenskyy[ said ](https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1755622695478128947)on social media, adding: “We also discussed who could be in the renewed leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.” However, no successor was immediately named.Zelenskyy “thanked” Zaluzhny for “two years of protecting Ukraine”*** and added that in their meeting on Thursday, they discussed “updated leadership” for Ukraine’s military and added that he proposed that Zaluzhny “remain part of the team.”