A new deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff from Belarus is appointed

Aleksandr Lukashenko, President of the Republic of Belarus, issued a decree appointing Major General Viktor Lisovski deputy Chief of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), TASS reports with reference to the Press Service of the President of the Republic of Belarus.

“Aleksandr Lukashenko, President of Belarus, has appointed Major General Viktor Lisovski deputy Chief of the Joint Staff of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, relieving him of the post of the head of the Military Academy of Belarus. Major General Sergei Kuprik was relieved of the post of deputy Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff,” reads the TASS statement.

According to the decree, Sergei Kuprik is seconded to the State Secretariat of the Security Council, leaving him in the employ of the Defence Ministry, while Major General Gennady Lepeshko, who previously served as first deputy head of the Military Academy, is appointed to the vacated post of head of this educational institution.

Viktor Lisovski was born on October 17, 1965 in Baranovichi, Brest oblast. He graduated from Ulyanovsk Guards Higher Tank Command School and then from the Command and Staff Department of the Military Academy of Belarus and the State Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Federation. He was the head of the Military Academy of Belarus since December 2016.