Zelenskyy to appoint Security Service general as head of Odesa City Military Administration

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to appoint Serhii Lysak, the current head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, as the head of Odesa City Military Administration.

Source: Ukrainska Pravda source; decrees on the president's website

Details: The source told Ukrainska Pravda that the relevant documents establishing the military administration and appointing its head are expected to be published shortly.

Suspilne, a Ukrainian public broadcaster, and the national joint 24/7 newscast have also reported, citing their own sources, that Lysak will become the head of Odesa City Military Administration.

The presidential decrees establishing Odesa City Military Administration and appointing Serhii Lysak as its head appeared on the official website of the head of state on the afternoon of Wednesday 15 October.

Quote from the decree: "Odesa City Military Administration of the Odesa district of Odesa Oblast shall be established pursuant to the Law of Ukraine On the Legal Regime of Martial Law."

Details: The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Odesa Oblast State Administration have been instructed to take the measures required under the law On the Legal Regime of Martial Law to implement the establishment of the military administration.

Due to Lysak's transfer to the new post, his duties as head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast State Administration have been temporarily assigned to his deputy, Vladyslav Haivanenko, the former head of the Kyivskyi district police department of the National Police in Odesa.

Background: In his evening address on 14 October, President Zelenskyy announced plans to establish a city military administration in Odesa.

For reference: Serhii Lysak is a brigadier general in the Security Service of Ukraine. From 2020, he had led the Security Service office in Zhytomyr Oblast. On 19 July 2022, President Zelenskyy appointed him head of the Security Service in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and on 7 February 2023, Zelenskyy signed a decree naming Lysak head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration.

Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!