Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said during an overnight speech Friday that he has demoted two of his own generals, describing them as 'traitors.'
RUSSIA INVADES UKRAINE: LIVE UPDATES"That is why the ex-chief of the Main Department of Internal Security of the Security Service of Ukraine Naumov Andriy Olehovych and the former head of the Office of the Security Service of Ukraine in the Kherson region Kryvoruchko Serhiy Oleksandrovych are no longer generals," he continued.
Zelenskyy didn't explicitly say why the generals were demoted, but said,"According to Article 48 of the Disciplinary Statute of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, those servicemen among senior officers who have not decided where their homeland is, who violate the military oath of allegiance to the Ukrainian people [in regard to] the protection of our state, its freedom and independence, will inevitably be deprived of senior military ranks.
"The invaders are allocating their sick creativity to the temporarily occupied areas of the Kherson region," he added."Also in Donbas, in Mariupol, in the Kharkiv direction, Russian troops are accumulating the potential for strikes. Powerful strikes." Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox