Head Of Ukraine's Emergency Service Dismissed, Says Interior Minister Klymenko

Serhiy Kruk, the head of Ukraine's State Emergency Service, has been dismissed, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko announced on August 25 on Telegram, without giving a reason for the move. Klymenko said Kruk's deputy, Volodymyr Demchuk, would serve as acting head. The move appears to be connected to a helicopter crash in January that killed Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskiy, his deputy Yevhen Yenin, and state secretary Yuriy Lubkovich, plus 11 other people, including a child. Kruk and three other officials from the Emergency Service were accused of negligence and violating flight safety rules in approving the flight in bad weather conditions. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service, click here.