Posted on 07/20/2022 4:19:44 AM PDT by FarCenter
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has fired his head of Secret Service (SBU), Ivan Bakanov, and General Prosecutor Iryna Venediktova. Bakanov was a childhood friend and then was Zelensky’s manager during his career as a comedian.
Apparently, SBU was heavily penetrated by Russian intelligence. The SBU directors of the offices in Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Sumy, Zakarpattia and Zhytomyr were also relieved of their duties.
Ukraine faces difficulties getting Western weapons to the front lines, the Wall Street Journal reports, explaining that the country has been given multiple complex systems with not much in common.
Russia has responded to statements by the deputy head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Vadym Skbitsky, who claimed that Crimea could be targeted by US-supplied HIMARS and UK M270 MLRS systems. The Russian response would be “harsh,” said Mikhail Sheremet, who represents Crimea in the Russian parliament.
Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu met with Lieutenant General Muradov, commander of Russian forces operating north of Slovyansk, and told him to prioritize the destruction of Ukrainian long-range artillery systems.
On the ground, action throughout remains subdued even after the Russian “operational pause” has been declared over.
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Both were fired legally by Ukraine Parliament
He, because he was clueless about the job and made the Russian FAB-infested Ukraine KGB, wholly a creature of the Russian FSB.
She, because she was responsible for oversight of all the local AGs, lawyers, and judges associated with her office who had decided to collaborate with the Occupiers.
This is also connected to the Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Indiana) scandal with her accusations that A. Yermak, the head of the Presidential Administration which runs the country, not Zelenskyy, sequestered Western weapons (Javelins, NLAWS) in western Ukraine back in March instead of distributing them to the frontline troops.
See “Attack on Europe” thread and the “War in Ukraine” posts (daily) for more background and information.
She, because she was responsible for oversight of all the local AGs, lawyers, and judges associated with her office who had decided to collaborate with the Occupiers.
all this does is prove to me (once again), and outsider, that this is really a civil war among brother slavs with a common language, history and culture. Families, friends, former colleagues are all divided by this situation - and a meddling West. In particular, the US deep state supported fringe nationalists in Western Ukraine to stoke this war.
Ukraine has its own language; the Russians were exported to the Ukraine by the Soviet Union.
Is thisi another new FSB propaganda line you are attempting to put forth?
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