Ukraine's State Security Service
Acting President Oleksandr Turchinov has sacked Vitaly Tsygankov, the head of the Anti-Terrorism Center of the Ukrainian Security Service, late last night, just a week after appointing him to this position. The new head of the Center is Vasily Krutov.
Ukraine’s Interior Ministry wants to recruit 12,000 fighters into a newly-created Special Operations Corps (SOC) in response to the protest in the east, Ukraine's Interior Minister Arsen Avakov announced on his Facebook page.
Each region will have its own branch of the corps, with eastern parts of the country being on the priority list.
He didn't explain whether the new units will be formed in addition to or as a replacement for the National Guard, which was formed after the ousting of (former) President Viktor Yanukovich and incorporate parts of the paramilitary forces, which played part in it.
The announcement comes as Kiev threatened to use military force against the unruly Dotensk Region, where armed anti-Maidan activists seized a number of government buildings in different cities and towns over the last week.
The file photo shows a soldier from the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) -. Sun Apr 6, 2014
CIA has refused to comment on reports that its director John Brennan travelled to Ukraine on Saturday to meet the new authorities in Kiev, but said he did not influence their decision to order a military operation in the country’s east.
President Barack Obama speaks with CIA Director and his chief counterterrorism advisor John Brennan at the White House in Washington DC
“The claim that Director Brennan encouraged Ukrainian authorities to conduct tactical operations inside Ukraine is completely false,” CIA spokesman Todd Ebitz said as cited by AP. “Like other senior U.S. officials, Director Brennan strongly believes that a diplomatic solution is the only way to resolve the crisis between Russia and Ukraine.”
CIA spokesman Todd Ebitz refused to give any comments on Brennan’s travels.
During a press conference of Sunday, Ukraine's ousted president Viktor Yanukovich said that Brennan “de facto sanctioned” the use of weapons during his secret visit to Kiev.
At this moment armed Anti-Maidan activists are trying to take over police HQ in Gorlovka, a city with a population of more than 250,000 in the turbulent Donetsk Region of Ukraine, local media reported.
Earlier reports said some of the protesters spent the night in already seized City Hall.
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