Ukraine’s parliament approves resignations of security chief and prosecutor

The Ukrainian parliament today approved the resignations of the head of internal security and the attorney general, two days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy sacked them for failing to remove Russian spies.

Several lawmakers said on the messaging app Telegram that Ivan Bakanov was dismissed from his post as head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) by a comfortable majority.

The head of Zelensky’s political faction, Iryna Venicetova, has also been dismissed from the post of attorney general.

In a statement posted on Telegram minutes before his resignation was confirmed, Bakanov said “miscalculations” were made during his tenure, but he was proud of his record.