Ukraine’s president claimed yesterday that more than 60 employees of the State Security Service and the General Prosecutor’s Office were working against the country in Russian-occupied territories.
Vasily Vasilievich Maliuk was chosen by Volodymyr Zelensky to take over temporarily the leadership of the Ukrainian State Security after he tortured its former head and his childhood friend, Ivan Bakanov.
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In addition to Bakanov, Zelensky also fired the country’s Prosecutor General, Irina Venedikova, who had been tasked with prosecuting Russian war crimes in Ukraine. Oleksii Simonenko was appointed as the new Prosecutor General.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed yesterday that more than 60 employees of the State Security Service and the General Prosecutor’s Office were working against the country in Russian-occupied territories.
A few minutes earlier, on the website of the Ukrainian presidency, an executive decree was posted by which Zelensky dismissed the heads of these two agencies.
According to the Ukrainian president, 651 criminal investigations have been launched on charges of high treason and cooperation against employees of prosecutor’s offices, pre-trial investigation services and other law enforcement agencies.
Among other things, “more than 60 employees of the prosecutor’s office and the Security Service of Ukraine remained in the occupied territories and are working against our state,” he added.
Zelensky said the offenses “raise very serious questions” for the heads of the agencies and added: “Each of these questions will receive an appropriate answer.”
APE-MBE, BBC, Reuters
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