President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky immediately dismissed the head of the country’s security service. Ivan Bakanovand Prosecutor General of the country Irina Venediktova, as stated in a presidential decree this Sunday.
Venediktov will be replaced by Oleksiy Simonenko, while no change has been announced for Bakalov, who was still a close associate of the president and from whom the president distanced himself after the fall of the Kherson region to the Russians in the first weeks of the war, according to sources from the American news portal Politico.
According to the decree published on the website of the Presidium UkraineBakalov dismissed in accordance with Article 47 of the Disciplinary Charter Armed forceswhich speaks of “failure (or improper performance) of official duties with the subsequent cost of human lives.”
For his part, the prosecutor was fired in connection with the military powers Zelenskiy assumed after Russia’s invasion of the country, without giving any details.
Speaking to the population after the layoffs were announced, the President of Ukraine claimed that about 60 employees of the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Security Service “remained in the territories occupied by Russia and cooperated with the Russians.”
“Such a set of crimes against the foundations of the national security of the state and ties that are recorded between employees of the law enforcement agencies of Ukraine and special services Russia pose very serious questions to the relevant leaders,” the president said in comments collected by the Kyiv Independent.
At least 23 killed in Vinnytsia attack
At least 23 people were killed in a city in central Ukraine last Thursday, including three children, in what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called an “outright terrorist attack.”
These attacks in Vinnytsia, a region of the country that has so far been relatively free from hostilities, took place at a time when a meeting is being held in The Hague on crimes committed in Ukraine.
In a remote speech at the meeting, hosted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), the European Commission and the Netherlands, Zelenskiy called for the creation of a “special court” to deal with “crimes of Russian aggression against Ukraine.”
In Vinnytsia, footage released by rescuers shows charred cars next to a 10-story building that was burned and destroyed by an explosion.
(According to Europe Press)
Source: RPP
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