Ukraine’s 24th Separate Assault Regiment Aidar says Major Serhii Myroshnychenko has taken command. The announcement shows that the contested leadership change went ahead despite the regiment’s earlier public appeal to reverse the removal of its previous commander, Major Oleksandr Kovalenko.
In its statement, the regiment said it was continuing combat tasks on designated parts of the front under Myroshnychenko’s command. Earlier, its personnel had appealed to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Mykhailo Drapatyi to overturn the decision concerning Kovalenko. They said at the time that personnel strongly opposed the appointment of new leaders who had not shared the unit’s combat path from the beginning.
The latest statement establishes the immediate institutional outcome: a new commander is leading the regiment as it continues its tasks. It does not establish that the internal dispute has been resolved. The supplied reporting contains no fresh response from personnel who opposed the change, and it does not identify the authority that made the appointment, its effective date, or the terms of the handover.
That distinction matters. The available evidence supports a narrow but consequential conclusion: public opposition did not prevent the command change. It offers no basis to judge Myroshnychenko’s military performance or to claim that the regiment’s earlier objections have faded. For now, Aidar’s own statement places the unit under new command while leaving the broader dispute open.
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- Українська правда · Source date: 2026-11-11
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