Zelenskiy names former army chief Zaluzhnyi 'hero of Ukraine'

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy named former army chief Valeriy Zaluzhnyi a "Hero of Ukraine" on Friday, a day after the popular general was replaced in the biggest shakeup of the war to date, a decree published on the president's website showed.

Zaluzhnyi, widely seen as a national hero for overseeing Ukraine's war effort throughout Russia's full-scale invasion, was replaced by ground forces commander Oleksandr Syrskyi on Thursday.