Why Is Zelensky Purging His Security Services

Uncredited photo of Zelenskyy via Enews 

 Olga Lautman, SpyTalk: Behind Zelenskyy's Security Shakeup  

A deep and continuing rot of treason imperils Ukraine's battle against the Russians 

When Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale assault on Ukraine in February, he really did believe that his operation to seize Kyiv would last less than a week. That’s largely because Putin has spent decades cultivating Ukrainian officials, oligarchs and political parties to impede Kyiv’s move toward democracy and independence from Russia. But they failed him. Even before the invasion, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had been moving to crush Putin's agents. And in mid-July, he doubled down on his counter-subversion campaign.  

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WNU Editor: There are many close family and friendship ties between Russians and Ukrainians. I would not be surprised if a third of Ukraine, primarily the Russian-Ukrainian parts of the country, are sympathetic to Moscow. 

So what does this mean? 

Quoting Pogo, Zelensky is finding out that in some cases "we have found the enemy and it is us".