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Updated: July 20, 2022

Ukraine Dismisses Security Chief, Prosecutor General

By Quadri Adejumo
July 20, 2022
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Ukraine’s parliament has dismissed the country's security chief and prosecutor general on Tuesday.

This comes two days after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suspended them for failing to root out Russian spies.

Aljazeera added that Ivan Bakanov was fired from his position at the helm of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and Iryna Venediktova had also been voted out as prosecutor general.

Zelenskyy on Tuesday also fired heads of five regional branches of the SBU and one deputy head of the agency.

Zelenskyy had said on Sunday that 651 cases had been opened into suspected treason, and more than 60 people from Bakanov’s and Venediktova’s agencies were now working against Ukraine in its war with Russia.