Deputy prosecutor-general out after media criticism over 10-day holiday in Spain despite Russian invasion
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, Ukraine, January 24 2023. Picture: VALENTYN OGIRENKO/REUTERS
“Zelensky’s personnel decisions testify to the key priorities of the state ... The president sees and hears society. And he directly responds to a key public demand — justice for all,” said Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior Zelensky adviser. Symonenko was criticised for what media outlets said was a 10-day holiday with his family in Marbella in Spain over New Year despite the war with Russia. Symonenko has not commented publicly on those allegations.
In another shake-up after the start of the war, the head of the SBU security service and the state prosecutor-general were removed from their posts last July. Zelensky considered them to be close allies, but said they failed to root out traitors in their organisations. Ukraine says Western tanks would give its ground troops the firepower to break Russian defensive lines and resume their advance. But Western allies have been unable to reach an agreement on arming Kyiv with tanks, wary of moves that could cause Moscow to escalate.
American legislators have pressed their government to export M1 Abrams battle tanks to Ukraine, saying even a symbolic number would help push European allies to do the same.
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