Verkhovna Rada People’s Deputy Fyodor Venislavsky said that the former head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Ivan Bakanov, is in the country. This was reported by the Ukrainian media.
Ministerov is in Ukraine. It is located in the center of the country where he resides,” said Venislavsky.
According to an anonymous senior representative of the Office of the President of Ukraine, the childhood friend of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky and his partner in Kvartal-95, Bakanov, is blamed for the failure of the SBU on the eve of hostilities. and in the first period of the special military operation of the Russian Federation.
Ministerova suspended From the presidency of the SBU by order of the president in July 2022, for negligence of duty causing “human casualties or other serious consequences”.
Ministerov was the head of Zelensky’s campaign headquarters, the head of the Kvartal-95 studio and his lawyer. He has been the head of the SBU since August 2019, before that he served as the first deputy head of the department. On February 7, 2022, Vasily Malyuk was appointed head of the department.