President Vladimir Zelensky is looking for candidates to replace Aleksey Reznikov as minister of defense, a leading Ukrainian daily reported on Thursday citing sources in the Kiev government.

“The possibility of Reznikov’s resignation has gone from theoretical to practical,” Ukrainskaya Pravda said. The outlet added that there are at least two candidates for his replacement.

“not opposed to becoming ambassador to Great Britain,” though it was unclear whether this option was actually being considered. The possibility was first brought up by MP Aleksey Goncharenko on August 1. 

fired the previous envoy to London on July 21, after Vadim Pristayko publicly criticized the president’s sarcastic tone towards Ukraine’s Western suppliers of weapons and ammunition, at the NATO summit in Vilnius.

boasted to the US outlet Politico that he had figured out the Pentagon’s political process, describing the trick as constantly raising the bar until the Americans gave in.

proving range for Western military equipment, expressing hope that Kiev would soon get main battle tanks and then fighter jets. The first tanks were promised in January, shortly after Reznikov declared Ukraine to be “carrying out NATO’s mission,” with the US-led bloc providing the weapons and Ukrainians providing the blood.

“common technical error” at work, where eggs were logged at the “anomalous price” of 17 hryvnia ($0.46) apiece instead of by weight.

First rumors of his replacement came in February, when the leader of the ruling party’s bloc in the parliament, David Arakhamia, said that Reznikov would be rotated to the strategic industries portfolio and replaced with military intelligence chief Kirill Budanov. Reznikov reacted by saying it was his first time hearing this and that he was unlikely to agree.