War Ukraine - Russia, last minute live | Zelensky dismisses two strongholds of his government for "working against the state"

The President of

,

, has dismissed his Prosecutor General,

, and the head of the country's Security Services,

, on Sunday for "inadequate performance of their duties with the consequent cost of human lives".

This is the largest reorganization of his government carried out since the start of the

at the end of February.

In

the repression continues against anyone who denounces the

.

Thus, the Russian journalist

, who interrupted the main public television news program with anti-war proclamations last March, was arrested on Sunday near her home.

Her family does not know her whereabouts.

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Zelenski dismisses his general prosecutor and the head of the security service

The president of

,

, has dismissed this Sunday his General Prosecutor,

, and the head of the country's Security Services,

, for "inadequate performance of their duties with the consequent cost of human lives", has announced through his account on the social network Telegram.

This is the biggest reorganization of his government carried out since the start of the

at the end of February.

Zelensky assures that more than 60 employees of the Office of the Prosecutor and the Security Service of

who directed the dismissed have remained in the occupied territories and "work against our state".

The government official also says that connections have been detected between the Ukrainian security forces and

's special services , which "constitutes a crime against the foundations of national security."

Venediktova will be replaced by

while Bakalov's replacement, who until now was considered among the president's closest circle of friends, has not been announced.

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They arrest the Russian journalist who interrupted the news to denounce the war in Ukraine

Russian journalist

, who interrupted the main public television news program with anti-war proclamations last March, was arrested on Sunday near her home, her lawyers reported on her Telegram account.

"Marina has been arrested. We do not know her location," they have written, along with some photographs in which two police officers are seen taking the journalist away in a white van.

One of her lawyers,

, has confirmed to the official Russian agency RIA Nóvosti the arrest of Ovsyánnikova.

"I guess it has something to do with their protest" last Friday on a bridge near the

walls with a banner and two dolls with red paint on their faces and clothes on the ground, according to a video posted that day on his Telegram channel.

On the banner, the journalist wrote that Russian President

"is a murderer, his fascist soldiers. 352 children have died. How many more have to die for you to stop?"

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