Zelenskyy to fire senior SBU, HUR officials
After a Kyiv shootout between the employees of Ukraine’s SBU security service and Defense Intelligence (HUR), the deputy heads of both agencies responsible for the incident will be dismissed, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sept. 3.
On September 3, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that the deputy heads of Ukraine's SBU security service and Defense Intelligence (HUR) will be dismissed following a shootout in Kyiv. Speaking in his evening address, Zelenskyy said that both agencies acted in an "unacceptable" manner. "I spoke with Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko about the situation between the SBU and HUR," he explained.
"There are already two formal charges for those involved in the shootout — one against an SBU officer and another against a HUR officer." The president added that further investigations would be conducted into the circumstances surrounding the incident, which dates back to the "first day of this entire story." Reports emerged overnight on September 2 and into the following morning of a clash between SBU and HUR officers on Yuriia Shumskoho Street in Kyiv's Berezniaky residential area, leading to the closure of traffic on this street.
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