7 Oct 2014 18:33

Ukraine's border agency chief dismissed - presidential decree

KYIV. Oct 7 (Interfax) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree dismissing Mykola Lytvyn as the head of the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service.

The decree was posted on the president's website on Monday evening.

Earlier Poroshenko said that he had decided to sack the chief border official.

On September 16 Verkhovna Rada made a third and successful attempt to pass the lustration bill. Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said that the law will affect the entire vertical of the Ukrainian government, that is around one million people.

Poroshenko has already stated that he would sign the government-purging bill but did not rule out its update in case of recommendations from the Venice Commission.