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Zelensky says two generals stripped of their rank due to treason.

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Andriy Naumov, who used to head the department of internal security at Ukraine's State Security Service (SBU), and Serhiy Kryvoruchko, head of the SBU in the city of Kherson, were stripped of their ranks as they had "violated their oath to Ukraine," according to President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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