Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gestures while addressing a press conference with Netherland's prime minister (not in the picture), following their talks in Kyiv on July 11, 2022. (SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP)
KYIV/MOSCOW – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on late Sunday that he had decided to dismiss Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova and head of the Security Service of Ukraine Ivan Bakanov, the presidential press service reported.
In his address to the nation, Zelensky blamed Venediktova and Bakanov of not dealing properly with a large number of traitors in their agencies.
As of Sunday, Ukrainian authorities had launched 651 criminal proceedings on charges of "treason and collaboration activities" in law enforcement agencies, he said.
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More than 60 employees of the prosecutor's office and the Security Service of Ukraine were "working against our state," he added.
Russia hits depot housing NATO missiles
Russian forces destroyed a depot housing Harpoon anti-ship missiles delivered by NATO countries in Ukraine's important port city of Odessa with high-precision long-range air-based missiles, Russia's Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
It said Russian forces also shot down one Ukrainian MI-17 helicopter near the town of Slavyansk in Donetsk, and one SU-25 warplane of the Ukrainian air force in the Kharkiv region.
Russian missiles target Mykolaiv city
The industrial infrastructure of the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv was destroyed after the city was hit probably by S-300 missiles on the night of Saturday to Sunday, the Ukrainian government-run Ukrinform news agency said.
No civilian casualties were reported so far, it added.
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Russian forces launched rocket attacks on eight communities in the northeastern Sumy region and one community in the northern Chernihiv region on Saturday, the State Border Service of Ukraine said on Facebook on Sunday.
