Ukrainian president fires Security Service department chiefs

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed the heads of three departments of the Ukrainian Security Service.

The Head of the Ukrainian Security Service’s department in the Kyiv region Serhiy Zayats was fired, according to Kommersant.

Artem Bondarenko, who previously headed the Ukrainian Security Service’s department in the Lviv region was appointed instead of Zayats.

The Head of the Ukrainian Security Service’s department in the Ternopil region Yuriy Boreychuk was also dismissed. No one has been appointed to fill his shoes yet. The corresponding decrees are published on the Ukrainian presidential website.

President Zelenskyy previously terminated the service contracts of Prosecutor General of Ukraine Iryna Venediktova and Head of the Ukrainian Security Service Ivan Bakanov in July 2022.

The Ukrainian president said that some individuals should be “cleaned” from the state organisations as collaborators have been repeatedly revealed among officials and employees of law enforcement agencies.