President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has promoted Chief of the General Staff Andrii Hnatov to the military rank of lieutenant general.

Source: decrees

Details:In addition, Zelenskyy awarded new ranks to a number of officials:

• Colonel Andrii Tkachuk , Deputy Commander of the Air Assault Forces – promoted to brigadier general;
• Brigadier General Oleh Luhovskyi , First Deputy Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service – promoted to major general;
• Colonel Yevhenii Kurash , Commander of the 16th Army Corps of the Operational Command Pivnich (North) of the Ground Forces – promoted to brigadier general;
• Colonel Valerii Kurach , Commander of the 21st Army Corps of the Operational Command Pivnich (North) of the Ground Forces – promoted to brigadier general;
• Brigadier General Serhii Holubtsov , Deputy Commander of the Air Force – promoted to major general;
• Brigadier General Oleksandr Ptytsia , Head of the Eastern Regional Directorate of the State Border Guard Service – promoted to major general;
• Colonel Oleksii Osypenko , Deputy Commander of the National Guard – promoted to brigadier general;
• Colonel Oleh Voievodin , First Deputy Head of the Security Service of Ukraine in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts – promoted to brigadier general;
• Colonel of the Civil Protection Service Artem Astakhov , Head of the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Kharkiv Oblast – promoted to major general of the Civil Protection Service;
• Police Colonel Oleksandr Hanzha , Head of the Main Directorate of the National Police in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast – promoted to police general of the third rank.

The president also signed dozens of decrees on 23-24 August awarding honours, including the title of Hero of Ukraine.

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