Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has fired First Deputy Head of the State Border Service of Ukraine Yuriy Hresko and Deputy Head of the State Border Service Artur Pimenov.
“To dismiss Yuriy Petrovych Hresko from the post of first deputy head of the State Border Service of Ukraine,” says presidential decree No. 582/2019 of August 6, posted on the presidential website.
By another decree, No. 583/2019 of August 6, posted on the president’s website, Zelensky dismissed Pimenov from the post of deputy head of the State Border Service of Ukraine.
As reported, Hresko was appointed first deputy head of the State Border Service instead of Vasyl Servatiuk on April 10, 2019, by the fifth president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, by presidential decree No. 115/2019. Hresko had previously been director of the State Border Protection Department of the State Border Service.
Pimenov was appointed deputy head of the State Border Service by Poroshenko’s decree No. 438/2018 of Dec. 27, 2018. Prior to his appointment, he had been director of the Operations Department of the State Border Service.
