Naev’s powers were completed by order of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces, his dismissal coincided with the rotation of the unit.
“Together with the officers of the governing body, we leave one of the hottest directions of the Donetsk region. In the future, the completion of tasks in this area will be entrusted to one of the newly created corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” Naev wrote.
He reported on the successful 4-month confrontation between the group to the invaders in the direction where the Russian aggressor forces have significant numerical superiority in manpower and technology.
“Most importantly, we did not allow a breakthrough to the Dnipropetrovsk region,” said Lieutenant General.
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Naev was the deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, then commanded the operation of the United Forces since its official beginning in 2018 instead of the ATO. A year later, in the spring of 2019, he left this position “in the order of rotation” and continued to work in the General Staff.
In March 2020, after the APU reform and a change in the structure of the troops, Zelensky appointed Naev by the commander of the United Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In April 2022 Zelensky He awarded Naevu the title of Hero of Ukraine.
In November 2023, about the possible dismissal of Naev reported the media. According to Ukrainian Pravda, Naev may become one of the main defendants in the case regarding the unsuccessful defense of the Kherson region in 2022, which led to the fast occupation of a significant part of its territory after a full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation.
On the evening of February 8, 2024, two weeks before the second anniversary of the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky fired Valery Zalia from the post of commander in chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, appointing the commander of the Ground forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces, the Hero of Ukraine, Colonel General Alexander Syresky. This appointment was launched by mass rearrangements in the highest military leadership of Ukraine.
