A reserve lieutenant general of the Ukrainian secret service SBU was arrested as he attempted to illegally leave his country while it was fighting against the Russian invasion, Ukrainian authorities said.
The major general was stopped at a border crossing into Hungary. The officer presented forged documents showing that he was not under conscription for military service, Ukraine's State Investigation Bureau in Kiev said. The officer declared his military rank as a private. The major general was detained, the authority said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zhelensky said he removed from their military ranks two SBU brigadier generals, but did not give reasons for the decision in a video message.
One of them was the most recent head of the SBU in the Kherson region in southern Ukraine, which is now occupied by Russian troops.
"I don't have time to deal with traitors," Zelensky said, while praising the efforts of other SBU personnel fighting the war against Russian military forces.
Source: Proto Thema
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