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Poroshenko: Oleh Voyevodyn appointed as chief of SBU branch in Zakarpattia region

Published July 15, 2015 at 9:00 pm

A Ukrainian serviceman talks on the phone at a checkpoint on a road leading to the village of Lavki near the Ukrainian town of Mukacheve on July 13, 2015.

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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that he will sign a decree to appoint Oleh Voyevodyn as head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Zakarpattia region and he will take up this post on July 16.

“Starting from tomorrow, according to my decree, Oleh Voyevodyn will head the SBU in Zakarpattia region,” Poroshenko said in Uzhgorod on July 15 after a meeting with the heads of law enforcement agencies in the region.