Ukrainian president names senior security official as acting head amid rumours of splits in inner circle
Zelenskiy announced on Monday that Bakanov would be replaced by Vasyl Maliuk, a former first deputy head of the SBU who led the anti-corruption and organised crime unit of the agency’s central directorate.
Zelenskiy recently dismissed ambassadors to five countries including Germany, and several other envoys including those to Hungary, Norway, the Czech Republic and India. And last month, there was a public spat with the head of his armed forces. Initial reports suggested that the pair had been fired, but Andriy Smyrnov, Zelenskiy’s deputy chief of staff, clarified that they had been suspended. “Everyone has been waiting long enough for more concrete and, perhaps, radical results from the heads of these two bodies to cleanse them of collaborators and traitors,” he said. “However, in the sixth month of the war, we continue to find dozens of such people at each of these institutions.
The presidential decree announcing the suspensions of the two officials cited hundreds of criminal proceedings over alleged treason and collaboration by people within their departments and other law enforcement agencies.
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