KIEV, January 25. /TASS/. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky dismissed heads of three Ukrainian regions and of Kiev-controlled territories of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, according to decrees published by the presidential website late on Tuesday.

The presidential decrees relieve of duty Dnepropetrovsk Region head Valentin Reznichenko, Kiev Region head Alexey Kuleba, Sumy Region head Dmitry Zhivitsky and administrative heads of Kiev-controlled territories in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, Alexander Starukh and Yaroslav Yanushevich.

According to those documents, the officials had been dismissed in accordance with their own requests.

In recent days, the Ukrainian media reported a number of corruption scandals involving senior officials. On Sunday, Zelensky made a video address to signal that major personnel changes were due soon. A series of resignations of senior officials followed. Acting Infrastructure Minister Vasily Lozinsky was fired. Deputy chief of the presidential office Kirill Timoshenko resigned. Against the background of a scandal over media reports concerning food purchases for the Ukrainian military at inflated prices Deputy Defense Minister Vyacheslav Shapovalov tendered his resignation. Deputy Prosecutor General Aleksey Simonenko, who spent a vacation in Spain at the end of last year, has also stepped down.