Zelenskyy fires more aides in reshuffle as Russia launches attacks across Ukraine – National | 24CA News
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed a longtime aide and a number of other advisers on Saturday in a seamless reshuffle whereas Russia unleashed recent assaults in a single day.
Zelenskyy dismissed high aide Serhiy Shefir from his put up of first assistant, the place he had served since 2019. The Ukrainian president additionally let go three advisers, and two presidential representatives overseeing volunteer actions and troopers’ rights.
No clarification was given instantly for the most recent adjustments in a wide-reaching personnel shakeup over current months. It included the dismissal on Tuesday of Oleksii Danilov, who served as secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, and Valerii Zaluzhnyi as head of the armed forces on Feb. 8. He was appointed Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom earlier this month.
Ukraine’s air pressure stated Saturday that Russia launched 12 Shahed drones in a single day, 9 of which have been shot down, and fired 4 missiles into japanese Ukraine.
Russia unleashed a barrage of 38 missiles, 75 airstrikes and 98 assaults from a number of rocket launchers during the last 24 hours, Ukraine’s armed forces stated in social media posts.
Ukrainian power firm Centrenergo introduced Saturday that the Zmiiv Thermal Power Plant, one of many largest thermal energy vegetation within the japanese Kharkiv area, was utterly destroyed following Russian shelling final week. Power outage schedules have been nonetheless in place for round 120,000 folks within the area, the place 700,000 folks had misplaced electrical energy after the plant was hit on March 22.
Russia has escalated its assaults on Ukrainian power infrastructure in current days, inflicting vital harm in a number of areas.
Officials within the Poltava area stated Saturday there had been “several hits” to an infrastructure facility, with out specifying whether or not it was an power facility.
Meanwhile, the toll of Friday’s mass barrage of 99 drones and missiles hitting areas throughout Ukraine got here to gentle on Saturday, with native officers within the Kherson area on Saturday morning asserting the demise of 1 civilian. A resident of the Dnipropetrovsk area died in a hospital from shell wounds, in line with regional Gov. Serhiy Lisak.
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