Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers dismisses head of State Emergency Service after internal audit

Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has dismissed Serhii Kruk as head of the State Emergency Service (SES) following an internal audit.

Source: Ihor Klymenko, Ukraine’s Minister of Internal Affairs, on Telegram

Quote: "The government has decided to dismiss Serhii Kruk from his post as head of the State Emergency Service. The duties of the head of the State Emergency Service have been assigned to Volodymyr Demchuk, the deputy head of the SES.

The internal audit of the SES has been completed. Further personnel decisions will be made based on its results."

Details: The Interior Minister added that the State Emergency Service is operating as normal.

Klymenko did not specify the reasons for Kruk’s dismissal.

Previously: In early August, the State Bureau of Investigation reported that several officials from the State Emergency Service had been served with notices of suspicion for committing actions that law enforcement officers said had led to the death in a helicopter crash of Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi and other senior Interior Ministry officials on 18 January 2023.

Serhii Kruk was appointed as head of the State Emergency Service by the Cabinet of Ministers on 16 February 2022. 

Immediately afterwards, it emerged that his mother-in-law, Tamara Krytsko, had become the owner of three apartments in Rivne and ordered the construction of an expensive house.

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