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During his inauguration speech, President Zelenskyi called for the dismissal of the Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko, head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Vasyl Grytsak and the Defence Minister Stepan Poltorak. Both Grytsak and Poltorak filed resignation, and only Lutsenko is still trying to keep his post, refusing to leave voluntarily.
President Zelenskyi made his first appointments to the President's Administration. Andriy Bogdan, former lawyer of Kolomoisky, was appointed as the Head of the Administration. There are strong legal arguments Bogdan was appointed in violation of lustration law. Specifically, the author of the law Tetiana Kozachenko claims the violation, while the President's Administration states there wasn't. The Ministry of Justice started the inspection.
Ruslan Riaboshapka was appointed as the Deputy Head of the President's Administration. He will be covering anticorruption reform, law enforcement and judiciary.
Also, Zelenskyi appointed Ivan Bakanov as the First Deputy Head of the SBU. Bakanov does not have experience in the security sector reform yet.
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