MOSCOW, May 29. Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that he had fired the head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU ) in the Kharkiv region of Roman Dudin. website of Zelensky's office. Earlier on Sunday, he visited the Kharkiv region, where he held a meeting and met with the military. Currently, part of the Kharkiv region is under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. Russian President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, the Armed Forces completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.