Ukrainian President Zelensky has dismissed all heads of Ukraine’s regional navy committees amid a sprawling probe into corruption associated to armed forces recruitment.
The president posted a video and textual content assertion concerning the mass elimination of native navy officers on his official Telegram channel on Friday. The announcement comes amid a nationwide investigation into navy commissariats that has already produced 112 prison instances in opposition to native commissars.
“This system should be run by people who know exactly what war is and why cynicism and bribery during war is treason,” Zelensky mentioned, shortly after holding a particular assembly of the National Security and Defense Council.
“Instead, soldiers who have passed [through] the front or who cannot be in the trenches because they have lost their health, lost their limbs, but have preserved their dignity and do not have cynicism, are the ones who can be entrusted” with overseeing the system, he added.
Zelensky mentioned the choice shall be applied by commander-in-chief General Valery Zaluzhnyi. Before new heads of the regional recruitment facilities are appointed, there shall be inspections by the Security Service of Ukraine, Zelensky added.
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