UKRAINE’S President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he was weighing a possible dismissal of the country’s top military officer, a prospect that has worried Kiev’s Western allies.

Asked whether he was considering sacking General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Mr Zelensky told Italian RAI TV in an interview released late Sunday that he was thinking about it as part of a broader issue of setting the country’s path. 

The president said that “a reset, a new beginning is necessary” and it is “not about a single person but about the direction of the country’s leadership.”