President appoints Bukharev as SBU's first deputy head

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed Vladyslav Bukharev as head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine and appointed him as first deputy head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).

The decrees to that effect have been published on the website of the head of state.

By decree No. 681/2019, Bukharev was dismissed as head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine.

By decree No. 682/2019, Bukharev was appointed first deputy head of the SBU and the chief of the main directorate for combating corruption and organized crime of the SBU's central directorate.

In addition, Zelensky signed decree No. 683/2019 appointing Oleksandr Rusnak as head of the SBU's counterintelligence department.

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