The acting chief of the Ukrainian presidential administration, Serhiy Pashynsky, has said that the Luhansk regional police chief has been sacked and replaced by a new one.
“Yesterday, at the behest of the acting president, the head of the
Luhansk interior directorate was dismissed and replaced by a new one,
who has already traveled to his new workplace with a group of officers,”
he told reporters in Kyiv on Wednesday, without naming the new Luhansk
police chief.
“Police in Donetsk and Luhansk regions and towns are undergoing a
full rotation, all volunteers ready to defend their country are being
mobilized,” Pashynsky added.
On April 29 groups of pro-Russian protestors in Luhansk stormed a
number of administrative buildings, including that of the Luhansk
regional police.
Having failed to storm the building, the attackers sent negotiators
to police bosses. During the talks the regional police chief, Volodymyr
Huslavsky, wrote a letter of resignation. He was thus trying to persuade
protestors not to storm the building, the regional police spokeswoman
Tetiana Pohukai said.
On the same day, in his appeal to the nation Ukraine’s Acting
President Oleksandr Turchynov asked the interior minister, Arsen Avakov,
to conduct replacements among senior police officers in Donetsk and
Luhansk regions.
