Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave an order to its new head State Guard of Ukraine to purge Guard ranks of detractors, a month after Guard officers have been discovered accountable for the tried assassination of the president and senior Ukrainian officers.
The SBU safety service introduced final month that it had arrested two males, State Guard colonels, on fees of working with Russia to plan the assassination of Zelensky and different high nation officers.
In response to the SBU, the group’s objective was additionally to kill the top, Basil Maliuk, in addition to Kirill Budanov, the top of the army intelligence service. In response to the SBU, the 2 officers “carried confidential info” to Russia and meant to recruit safety service officers to take a hostage and to kill Zelensky.
The accountability of the State Guard is the security of public figures.
Presenting Colonel Oleksiy Morozov as the brand new head of the State Guard at present, Zelensky careworn that his important process is to make sure that solely those that see their future tied to Ukraine be part of the Guard.
“And, in fact, the Guard should eliminate anybody who doesn’t ally with Ukraine, or discredits the State Guard,” he mentioned within the Telegram.
Zelensky fired Morozov’s predecessor, Sergei Rudd, by decree in Could, two days after the SBU arrested company officers working for Russia’s Federal Safety Service who have been leaking categorised info.
Moscow has not commented on the SBU bulletins.
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