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Member of Parliament Maryana Bezuhla stated on social media that former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhnyi may have met in London with MP Vadym Stolar. 21 August 2026 of the year she publicly questioned possible reasons for such a meeting and asked what exactly could unite the two politicians. No documentary confirmations of the meeting itself or its circumstances are provided in publicly available information at this time.
“Zaluzhnyi and Stolar met in London. What could they have in common?” Bezuhla wrote. The deputy did not specify when exactly the meeting could have taken place, where in London it allegedly occurred, or what the information is based on. Bezuhla’s public statement does not contain statements about specific arrangements between Zaluzhnyi and Stolar. The deputy also did not claim that they committed any offenses. Therefore, information about a possible contact between the two politicians should currently be considered as the statement she voiced, requiring separate confirmation. For Bezuhla, the topic of Zaluzhnyi is not new. In 2023 year she publicly criticized the then Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, notably over issues of military planning and army management. Her statements sparked a discussion in the Verkhovna Rada and a public conflict around the deputy’s work in the parliamentary committee. In November 2023 year, Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk stated that public conflicts around military leadership can be used by Russia, while acknowledging the need for professional debate between politicians and military personnel. His position became one of the public responses to Bezuhla’s then-criticism of Zaluzhnyi. Bezuhla herself later explained that she had previously had working contacts with Zaluzhnyi, but later changed her attitude toward his managerial decisions. In one interview she said that she continued to communicate with the general after meeting through Oleksiy Arestovych and participated in work related to the defense sector. After being dismissed from the post of Commander-in-Chief, Zaluzhnyi was appointed ambassador of Ukraine to the United Kingdom. London itself remains the place of his diplomatic work, which makes messages about possible contacts with Ukrainian politicians geographically plausible, but does not by itself confirm a fact of a specific meeting. Vadym Stolar is a member of Parliament of Ukraine who represents a Kyiv constituency in parliament. His political and business activities in recent years have repeatedly attracted the attention of Ukrainian media, but Bezuhla’s statement does not provide a concrete link between these circumstances and a possible contact with Zaluzhnyi. Official statements from Zaluzhnyi or Stolar regarding the information voiced by Bezuhla were not found in the public domain at the time of preparing this material. There are also no confirmed data about the purpose, date, and format of a possible meeting. Further comments from participants could clarify whether this is a personal contact, a working conversation, or unverified information. Bezuhla’s statement emerged amid her ongoing political activity in the Verkhovna Rada. Official parliamentary data indicate that as of July 2026 year she continued to participate in votes as a member of parliament, including on defense and international policy issues.
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