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President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Oleksandr Khramov, head of the Department of State Secrets Protection and Licensing of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). He led this department since March 2023 year. The document does not specify the reason for the dismissal, but it is most likely related to the armed confrontation between SBU officers and the Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) in Kyiv, which occurred 2 in September.
This is described in Decree No. 868/2026. The president signed the document 2 in September.
"Dismiss Oleksandr Khramov Vitaliyovych from the position of head of the Department of State Secrets Protection and Licensing of the Security Service of Ukraine," the president's decree states.
Oleksandr Khramov led the Department of State Secrets Protection and Licensing of the SBU from 6 March 2023 year, when by Decree No. 135/2023 the president appointed him to this post. The department is responsible for monitoring compliance with the secrecy regime and issuing special permits and licenses in the field of state secrets protection in Ukraine.
Khramov's dismissal coincided with a high-profile conflict between the SBU and the GUR, although the official reason for the personnel decision was not explained. The president's decree contains no wording linking the dismissal to the shooting in Kyiv, but it is probably not just a coincidence.
The shootout between the SBU and the GUR — what happened on Shumskogo Street.
During the night of 2 September and in the morning of the same day, social networks circulated messages about a shooting in the Bereznyaky residential area, after which Kyiv City State Administration reported road closures on Yuriy Shumskogo Street.
Later the SBU claimed to have prevented an assassination attempt on one of the leaders of the Russian opposition movement, who had arrived in Kyiv for Independence Day. This information appeared after 1 September, when the chief of staff of the Russian Volunteer Corps, Oleksandr Fortuna, announced the kidnapping in Kyiv of the deputy commander of the RDC, Stepan Kaplunov. The shooting in Kyiv was connected precisely to his disappearance.
Kaplunov's lawyer stated that SBU officers "kidnapped" his client in 23 August, and the shooting occurred near the house where he lived and where he was brought for a search of his apartment. According to the defender, his client is already free. The case is being handled by the State Bureau of Investigation (DBR) and the Office of the Prosecutor General.
Earlier, Informator reported that the president ordered the SBU and GUR to provide the public with detailed information about the armed confrontation on Shumskogo Street, demanding a transparent investigation into the circumstances of the clash between the two security bodies.
We also wrote that, according to People's Deputy Fedir Venslavsky, the gunfire during the shootout could have been opened by an SBU officer involved in the murder of GUR agent Denis Kiriyev in 2022 year.
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