Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Andrii Hnatov as the new chief of the general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday appointed Major-General Andriy Hnatov as Ukraine's chief of the general staff as Kyiv seeks to speed up army reform.

Hnatov, who was formerly appointed as the deputy chief of the General Staff in February, will be replacing Anatolii Barhylevych, who took the role in February 2024.

Likely to seek 'ironclad' guarantees that NATO nations will exclude Kyiv from NATO membership and Ukraine will remain neutral

Russia will seek guarantees that Nato will exclude Ukraine from membership and that Ukraine will remain neutral in any peace deal, a Russian deputy foreign minister said. "We will demand that ironclad security guarantees become part of this agreement,