The US should not interfere – Sullivan on Zaluzhny’s possible resignation

Sullivan said that the United States should not interfere in the issue of Zaluzhny's resignation/Collage 24 Channel

National Security Adviser to the US President Jake Sullivan spoke about the possible resignation of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny. According to the official, the United States should not interfere in this issue.

According to Biden's adviser, American authorities also reported this directly to the Ukrainian military-political to the command. This is how Sullivan answered the question whether the White House was informed about Zaluzhny's possible dismissal.

Sullivan explained the US reaction to Zaluzhny's possible resignation

According to the adviser to the American president, the US government should not interfere in one way or another with the issue of the dismissal of General Valeriy Zaluzhny from the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Therefore, we stay away from these personnel decisions,” Sullivan said.

He also noted that Kiev and the President of Ukraine directly have the sovereign right to make their own personnel decisions.< /p>

“We made it clear that we are not going to participate in this particular decision. We told the Ukrainians directly about this,” the Biden adviser emphasized.

Possible resignation of Valery Zaluzhny: what is known

• Appeared in the Ukrainian media on January 29 information that the President of Ukraine is considering the possibility of resigning Valery Zaluzhny from the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the end, Zelensky’s press secretary Sergei Nikiforov denied this information, denying Zaluzhny’s dismissal.
• In one of his interviews, Vladimir Zelensky noted that he was thinking about a personnel reboot. However, the president did not indicate what was being said about Zaluzhny, but noted that this is “not a question of one person or another.”
• In addition, NSDC Secretary Alexey Danilov noted that on Today there is no document on the resignation of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny. Danilov noted that if a document appears, then you can ask for opinions and talk about something, but for now it makes no sense.
• At the same time, journalists from The Washington Post, citing their own sources, they write that Kiev has not yet chosen a replacement for the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny. That is why the authorities are in no hurry with the possible dismissal.