On July 19, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine dismissed Ivan Bakanov from the post of head of the Security Service of Ukraine. 265 deputies voted for the relevant decision.

As deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak noted, Ivan Bakanov was not in the hall during the voting, and the consideration of the issue was quite formal.

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The Servant of the People faction gave the most votes in favor - 203, and the decision was also supported by 11 deputies of the Batkivshchyna, two from the Platform for Life and Peace, 12 from the For the Future group, 17 deputies from the Trust, 11.

Zheleznyak noted that the issue of appointing a new head of the SBU was not brought to today's meeting.

At the same time, in his address on the official resources of the SBU, Ivan Bakanov said that the result of his work in the service is "

“The SBU is not a political structure, and its head is not a politician. We were doing business, not PR. We built the most transparent relations with the society, which knows a lot about the achievements of the Service over the past 3 years,” he said..

Bakanov added that he did not manage to complete everything planned and admitted that there were miscalculations in the work, "

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The night before, as announced by ZN. UA, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky submitted a proposal to the Verkhovna Rada on the dismissal of Ivan Bakanov from the post of head of the Security Service of Ukraine, whom he removed from office by decree of July 17. Zelensky called the dominance of collaborators, including in the SBU bodies, the primary reason.

So, on July 16, the State Bureau of Investigation detained Oleg Kulinich, the former head of the SBU in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, on suspicion of high treason.. According to investigators, the officer changed his oath back in 2014, after the occupation of the peninsula by Russia..

According to our sources in the Service, Kulinich ruined the work of the Main Directorate of the SBU ARC.

Ivan Bakanov has served as head of the SBU since August 29, 2019. Prior to that, from December 2, 2017 to May 27, 2019, Bakanov was the chairman of the Servant of the People political party, and during the election campaign he led the headquarters of Vladimir Zelensky.

From January 25, 2013, Bakanov was the head of Kvartal 95 LLC, and from December 27, 2013 - the head of Studio Kvartal-95 LLC.