Author of the article: Reuters Oleksandr Kozhukhar Date of publication: March 31, 2022 • 1 hour ago • 1 minute reading • 16 comments Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks in the midst of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine in Kyiv on March 31, 2022, in a video image. Photo by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service / via Reuters TV
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LVIV – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday, in a rare sign of internal strife, told a video camera that he had fired two senior members of the national security service on the grounds that they were traitors.
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Zelensky said he had fired two top national security officials – the head of internal security and the head of the service branch in the Kherson region. “Today another decision was made for the anti-heroes – now I do not have time to deal with all the traitors, but gradually everyone will be punished. “That is why Andriy Olehovych Naumov, the former head of the main security department at the Security Service of Ukraine, and Serhiy Oleksandrovych Kryvoruchko, the former head of the SBU in the Kherson region, are no longer generals,” Zelensky said. He added that “these high-ranking military officials, who could not decide where their homeland is, who violate the military oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people regarding the protection of our state, its freedom, its independence, will certainly be deprived of their high military rank “. He did not give further details. This circumstance marked the first time that Zelenskyy announced high-profile dismissals of those involved in the defense of Ukraine.
