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President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has appointed Vitaliy Yalovenko as the deputy chief of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).

The relative order was posted on the president’s Web site on July 16.

Yalovenko has been working as chief of the Main Department of Ukrainian Interior Ministry in Kyiv region from February 2005 to March 2007, and in 2008 as well.

In February 2014, he was appointed to head the Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s internal security department.