President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday, February 11, held a series of meetings with representatives of the country's defense structures and law enforcement agencies to discuss strengthening state institutions and protecting them from any external or internal attempts to reduce the capacity and effectiveness. The head of state announced this in an evening address.

He clarified that the discussions concerned various areas, in particular personnel policy, interaction between various state institutions and cleanliness in their activities..

" You have seen during these weeks the relevant investigative actions, detentions,"

According to the President, the Security Service, the State Bureau of Investigation and the Office of the Prosecutor General have achieved significant results in protecting Ukraine from those who worked for Russia.

At the same time, he announced additional steps from the National Security and Defense Council to protect our state..

" Not only for certain individuals. But what concerns institutions.

The state will continue to modernize the institutions themselves, processes in them, procedures. Purity in the work of state structures should be guaranteed not only by what depends on the people themselves, but also by what transparency and accountability functionality has been created,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy stressed.

Earlier, the President of Ukraine called it especially important to observe full legality in the processes carried out by the structures of the Ministry of Defense.. He hinted that all violators of "