President Zelenskyy has dismissed Oleksii Danilov as the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC).
This is stated in the decree published on the website of the Office of the President.
“To relieve Danilov Oleksii Miacheslavovych from the post of the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine,” the statement said.
The head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Oleksandr Lytvynenko, was appointed in his place.
“To appoint Lytvynenko Oleksandr Valeriiovych as the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine,” another decree says.
Before that, Zelenskyy relieved Lytvynenko as the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service.
Recall that during his tenure as the Secretary of the NSDC, Danilov distinguished himself with several resonant statements.
On October 16, 2023, former non-staff adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine Oleksii Arestovych said that there was no benefit from the Secretary of the NSDC Danilov. Earlier, Danilov hinted that Arestovych is part of the russian agency network.
On June 5, 2023, Danilov called the president of the aggressor state of the russian federation, vladimir putin, “satan” and sent russian nuclear weapons to hell.
On June 3, 2023, Danilov advised the MP of Ukraine Maksym Buzhanskyi to “get out of politics,” calling him “an accomplice of the russian world.”
On October 21, 2022, Danilov called for the complete eradication of russian language in Ukraine, calling it “the language of propaganda and brainwashing.”
On August 12, 2022, Danilov announced his desire to “test all Ukrainians for collaborationism.”
On February 1, 2022, the NSDC Secretary Danilov called the COVID-19 pandemic “the first biological world war.”
In September 2021, Danilov began writing with Latin characters, but could not abandon the Cyrillic “x,” and also said that he “strains when he hears the russian language.”
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I posted a video of an interview with him only recently. He’s a very serious man of high quality and boy he’s certainly got a way with words.
I hope his career continues and wish good luck to his successor.
The next government will include all people Zelensky fired + Poroshenko.
Firing the best people in wartime? By far the best people?
Yeah, I dunno what Zelenskyy’s trying to achieve with that, neither. Is he expectaing miracles from such replacements? Possibly, the exact opposite will happen, because the new guys a nowhere near as experiened on the job and will need time to get into full gear. This rather smells like desperation to me. Instead of worrying so much about his department leaders, big Z should gocus on his effing party instead, which seriously delayed the urgently needed mobilization bill with over 4000 amendments. The guys he really needs to get rid off are in Verkhovna Rada! 😠