Ukraine Latest: Zelenskiy Fires Security Agency Head, Prosecutor
A destroyed local market after a Russian missile strike in Bakhmut, Donetsk region on July 16.
Photographer: Anatoli Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images
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President Volodymyr Zelenskiy removed his national security head and Ukraine’s top prosecutor, alleging that some employees collaborated with Russian intelligence. The firings, which target sensitive posts for a country at war, include Security Service chief Ivan Bakanov, a personal friend whose agency’s tasks include counterintelligence.