Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that he had sacked the head of the security services of Kharkiv (northeast), who "
had not worked in the defense of the city
" since the start of the Russian invasion.
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"
I came, I saw, and I dismissed the head of the security services of the region (of Kharkiv), because he had not worked in the defense of the city since the first days of this war, but only thought of himself
,” President Zelensky explained in his daily video message, after his first visit to the east of the country since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24.