Zelensky fires Kharkiv region security chief

the president of UkraineVolodymyr Zelensky, announced this Sunday that he fired the head of the Security Service in Kharkiv “for thinking only of himself”and pointed out that a third of that region in the northeast of the country is still occupied by the Russian military.

Zelensky did this sunday Kharkiv his first official visit outside the kyiv region in more than three months of Russian military occupation to meet with regional and local authorities.

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Kharkiv is close to the border with Russia and it is one of the Ukrainian cities hardest hit by Russian missiles, with entire neighborhoods destroyed, from which many of the nearly two million inhabitants of the city’s metropolitan area had been evacuated, which is the second largest in Ukraine after the capital , Kyiv.

Zelensky He said in his late-night speech this Sunday that he fired the head of the region’s Security Service “for not working to defend the city from the first days of a large-scale war, but thinking only of himself.”

One third of that region “it is still under occupation. We will definitely liberate the entire territory. And everyone must work for this result in positions at both the local and state levels.”

In addition, the Ukrainian president admitted that in Donbas “Russia got too close. He gathered too many forces (…) he was too prepared for the offensive there”.

He added that the Russian attacks in Severodonetsk caused all the critical infrastructure of the city to have been destroyed, with 90% of the houses damaged. More than two-thirds of the city’s homes have been completely destroyed. There is no mobile connection”.

Source: Elcomercio

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