Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has announced in the Verkhovna Rada the appointment of Viktor Muzhenko as chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“I have to inform you that I’m appointing Lieutenant General Viktor Muzhenko as the new chief of the General Staff and the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” he said in parliament on Thursday, July 3.
He said that Muzhenko “had performed heroically during the anti-terrorist operation.”
