Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed Oleg Salyukov from his role as commander of the Russian Ground Forces, according to a Kremlin decree published on May 15. The decision comes just days ahead of planned direct talks with Ukrainian representatives in Istanbul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Salyukov, who had led the high-profile May 9 Victory Day military parade commemorating 80 years since Russia\u2019s defeat of Nazi Germany, was not expected to be removed so abruptly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The decree states that Salyukov has been appointed Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council<\/strong>, a powerful advisory body that convenes regularly around President Putin. As part of this reshuffle, he has been “relieved of his current duties.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Security Council is currently headed by former Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu<\/strong>, who assumed the role last year following his own departure from the Defense Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Salyukov had served as commander of Russia\u2019s ground forces since 2014<\/strong>, overseeing key operations including the military intervention in Syria<\/strong> and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Prior to that, he was Deputy Chief of the General Staff<\/strong> for four years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The timing of this move, on the eve of sensitive negotiations, signals potential strategic recalibrations within the Russian military hierarchy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed Oleg Salyukov from his role as commander of the Russian Ground Forces, according to a Kremlin decree published on May 15. The decision comes just days ahead of planned direct talks with Ukrainian representatives in Istanbul. Salyukov, who had led the high-profile May 9 Victory Day military parade commemorating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":230167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"pays":[93],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-529138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-policy-news-benews","8":"pays-europe"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529217,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529138\/revisions\/529217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529138"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=529138"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=529138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}