Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Oleksandr Poklad, former senior deputy of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), as acting head in a decree issued July 17, as the Cabinet of Ministers tapped Maksym Tsutskiridze as temporary head of Ukraine's National Police.

Axar.az reports, citing The Kyiv Independent, that Tsutskiridze, former deputy head of Ukraine's National Police, was temporarily assigned the top role, Taras Melnychuk, the government's parliamentary representative, announced July 17.

"The First Deputy Head of the Security Service of Ukraine, Oleksandr Valentinovich Poklad, shall temporarily perform the duties of the Head of the Security Service of Ukraine," Zelensky's decree reads.