Overview

• The moves, reported by Ukrainska Pravda, are the first senior changes since Kyiv announced a corps-based command on Feb. 3 and were said to occur within the past two weeks.
• Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi removed Volodymyr Silenko of the 17th Corps and Maksym Kituhin of the 20th Corps, according to unnamed military sources.
• The 17th Corps sector south of Zaporizhzhia recently lost Kamianske and saw Ukrainian troops partly pushed from Plavni along the Dnipro River, the reports said.
• The 20th Corps was responsible for the Donetsk–Dnipropetrovsk boundary where Russian forces crossed in August and dug into Dnipropetrovsk.
• Interfax Ukraine said both officers were reassigned to other duties, while Russia claimed its troops seized Olhivske in Zaporizhzhia; Reuters said it could not independently verify competing battlefield accounts.