Zelensky dismisses two deputy secretaries of National Security and Defense Council

President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed two deputy secretaries of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council (NSDC).

According to Ukrinform, this is stated in decrees No. 831/2025 and No. 832/2025 dated November 7, 2025, published on the president’s website.

By decree No. 831/2025, Serhii Demediuk was dismissed from the post of deputy secretary of the NSDC of Ukraine.

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 By decree No. 832/2025, Andrii Kononenko was dismissed from the same position.

As Ukrinform reported, Zelensky earlier issued a decree increasing the maximum number of NSDC staff members to 252 and approved the structure of the council’s apparatus.

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