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"President Volodymyr Zelensky has made a number of decisions regarding officials of the Security Service of Ukraine. Ruslan Baranetsky has been dismissed as first deputy chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine and relieved of his duties as head of the Anti-Terrorist Center at the Security Service of Ukraine," the statement said.

Zelensky also dismissed Maliuk, the first deputy head of the Security Service of Ukraine and the head of the Main Department for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime.

In addition, Serhii Andrushchenko was dismissed as the SBU's deputy head and transferred to the post of first deputy head of the Security Service of Ukraine and head of its Anti-Terrorist Center.

Zelensky also sacked Oleksii Korniichuk, the head of the SBU's Department for the Counterintelligence Protection of State Interests in the Sphere of Information Security, and Vitalii Monastyretskyi, the head of the SBU's directorate in Chernivtsi region.

The President's Office said the main reason behind these decisions was to ensure the SBU's readiness for a systemic transformation that will meet the content of the SBU reform, and a respective bill is being worked out in the Verkhovna Rada.

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