Young Blood: Zelensky Bets on New Generation, Battle-Tested Officers for Top Army Posts

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At 39 he was an exchange foreign officer student studying at the US Army Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth.

He broke off his studies and returned to lead an assault regiment fighting in the Donbas sector.

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