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For the first time since the

, the president of

,

has visited the east of the country, where

is tightening its siege on the key towns of

.

It was there that the leader of

surveyed the destruction in

and it was there that he announced the dismissal of the head of the Ukrainian Secret Services (SUB) in charge of

for failing to defend the city during the

.

"He did not work on the defense of the city from the first day" of the

and thought only of himself, he claimed.

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06.03.

Zelensky fires Kharkov region security chief

The president of

,

, has announced that he has fired the head of the Security Service in

"for thinking only of himself", and pointed out that a third of that region in the northeast of the country is still occupied by the Russian military.

Zelensky

made his first official visit outside the

on Sunday to

meet with regional and local authorities.

Kharkov

is close to the border with

and is one of the Ukrainian cities hardest hit by Russian missiles, with entire neighborhoods destroyed, from which many of the nearly two million inhabitants of the city's metropolitan area had been evacuated, which is the second largest in Ukraine after the capital,

.

Zelensky

said in his late-night speech on Sunday that he fired the head of the region's Security Service "for not working to defend the city from the first days of a large-scale war, but thinking only of himself."

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