Zelenskyy had fired SBU chief Ivan Bakanov and Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova. Zelenskyy, citing hundreds of criminal proceedings into treason and collaboration by people within their departments and other law enforcement agencies Kyiv, Ukraine: As Russia kept up its relentless shelling across the country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expanded the shakeup of his security services on Monday by suspending 28 …
It is a conversation that has been repeated in Kyiv for months. Those suspicions of treachery burst into the open on Sunday when the Security Service of Ukraine arrested Oleh Kulinych, its own former chief of Crimean affairs, on suspicion of high treason. Hours later, Volodymyr Zelensky unceremoniously dismissed Ivan Bakanov, the country's chief spy, and Irina Venediktova, the prosecutor …
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he suspended officials over many cases of collaboration with Russia among their agencies’ members. Two top officials removed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have been suspended pending investigations but have not been formally dismissed, a senior presidential aide said. On Sunday, Zelenskyy said Ivan Bakanov had been removed as head of the SBU domestic security agency …
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky sacked the head of the country's secret service and its chief prosecutor on Sunday night over collaboration with the Russians, alleged to have taken place in their departments. As Moscow stepped up shelling across Ukraine, Mr Zelensky fired Ivan Bakanov, the head of the powerful domestic security agency, the SBU, and Iryna Venediktova, the prosecutor general. …
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