{"id":87586,"date":"2026-07-19T19:46:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/?p=87586"},"modified":"2026-07-19T19:49:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:49:28","slug":"two-senior-officers-resign-following-defense-ministers-dismissal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/news\/two-senior-officers-resign-following-defense-ministers-dismissal\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Senior Officers Resign Following Defense Minister&#8217;s Dismissal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the dismissal of Minister of Defense Mykhailo Fedorov and subsequent protests calling on the government to reinstate him, two prominent officers of Ukraine&#8217;s Defense Forces have announced their resignations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy acknowledged disagreements between Fedorov and General Syrskyi, saying that problems on the battlefield, within brigades, and with mobilization remain unresolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-militaryland-net wp-block-embed-militaryland-net\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"JXEyIqVNM0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/news\/navy-and-air-assault-forces-commanders-express-support-for-syrskyi\/\">Navy and Air Assault Forces Commanders Express Support for Syrskyi<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cNavy and Air Assault Forces Commanders Express Support for Syrskyi\u201d \u2014 MilitaryLand.net\" src=\"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/news\/navy-and-air-assault-forces-commanders-express-support-for-syrskyi\/embed\/#?secret=ALAOMpJm2N#?secret=JXEyIqVNM0\" data-secret=\"JXEyIqVNM0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the officers is Andriy Onistrat, a senior officer of the Central Department of Innovation Activities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and founder of the UAV battalion of the 68th Airmobile Brigade &#8220;Shershni Dovbusha.&#8221; He submitted his resignation report after being transferred to administrative duties in the 17th Army Corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;In the evening, my commander called and told me an order had come through transferring me to the 17th Corps \u2014 as the chief paperwork carrier. Well, I&#8217;m submitting my resignation,&#8221;<\/em> Onistrat said, adding that he believes the transfer is connected to his social media posts in support of Fedorov.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other officer is Colonel Pavlo Yelizarov, Deputy Commander of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Yelizarov called Fedorov&#8217;s removal &#8220;a great evil for the country&#8217;s defense capability&#8221; and explicitly named the dismissal as the reason for his resignation. He is the founder of the Lasar&#8217;s Group drone unit, considered one of the most effective combat formations in destroying Russian equipment and drones.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the dismissal of Minister of Defense Mykhailo Fedorov and subsequent protests calling on the government to reinstate him, two prominent officers of Ukraine&#8217;s Defense Forces have announced their resignations&#8230;.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/militaryland.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/news_lasar-1024x536.webp",1024,536,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Jerome Rendall","author_link":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/author\/ml_admin\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1078,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1078,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87586"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87640,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87586\/revisions\/87640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/militaryland.net\/ua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}