{"id":1353755,"date":"2026-02-04T22:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zelensky-appointed-interim-head-of-the-szru-who-took-up-the-position\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T22:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:27:22","slug":"zelensky-appointed-interim-head-of-the-szru-who-took-up-the-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/zelensky-appointed-interim-head-of-the-szru-who-took-up-the-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky appointed interim head of the SZRU: who took up the position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Wednesday, February 4, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed Oleh Luhovsky as the interim head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/president.gov.ua\/documents\/1002026-58245\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is stated<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the decree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe First Deputy Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, Oleh Vasylovych LUHOVSKY, shall temporarily perform the duties of the Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine,\u201d the document states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <b>Reference.<\/b><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Major General Oleg Lugovsky has been working in senior positions in the Foreign Intelligence Service since 2024. He was the deputy head of the SZRU, and a few months later became the first deputy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, Zelenskyy stated that the former head of the SZRU, Oleh <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ivashchenko-ocholyt-hur-zamist-budanova-shcho-pro-noho-vidomo\/\">Ivashchenko, will continue to serve in his position in the military intelligence<\/a> of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> Instead, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate, Kirill <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/budanov-rozpoviv-na-chomu-zoseredytsia-v-ofisi-prezydenta\/\">Budanov, accepted the offer<\/a> to become the head of the OP.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, February 4, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed Oleh Luhovsky as the interim head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine. This is stated in the decree. \u201cThe First Deputy Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, Oleh Vasylovych LUHOVSKY, shall temporarily perform the duties of the Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1353750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1353755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1353750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}