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Jul 18, 2022
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Ivan Bakanov (center) was dismissed as head of Ukraine’s State Security Service on July 17, 2022

No one knows what Ivan Bakanov actually did as head of Ukraine’s State Security Service, but we all suspected he wasn’t very good at it.

The same goes for Ukraine’s top cop, Iryna Venedyktova, whom Zelensky sacked the same day.

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