KIEV, Nov. 21 – The Security Service of Ukraine has announced a drive to remove corrupt officials from state agencies.

"We want to eliminate certain corrupt links, which parasitize on the state agencies system," an employee of the SBU's main department for fight against corruption and organized crime, Pavlo Kuzmenko, said.

"Some time ago corruption was an occasional phenomenon, which occurred in some social spheres, whereas now it is becoming wide-spread and large-scale phenomenon," the SBU employee said.