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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has issued decrees to dismiss head of the Directorate of Ukraine’s SBU Security Service in Zakarpattia region Oleh Voyevodin and appoint Volodymyr Pakhniuk to this position.

“To dismiss Oleh Voyevodin from the post of the head of the Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine in Zakarpattia region,” reads decree No. 343/2018 published on the presidential website on Oct. 26.

Under decrees No. 342/2018 and No.344/2018, Poroshenko dismissed Pakhniuk from the post of the SBU head in Vinnitsa region and appointed him as head of the SBU in Zakarpattia region.