KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed a longtime assistant and anumberof advisors on Saturday in a continuing reshuffle while Russia letloose fresh attacks overnight.
Zelenskyy dismissed top assistant Serhiy Shefir from his post of veryfirst assistant, where he had served giventhat2019 The Ukrainian president likewise let go 3 consultants, and 2 governmental agents managing volunteer activities and soldiers’ rights.
No description was provided rightaway for the newest modifications in a far-flung workers shakeup over current months. It consistedof the termination on Tuesday of Oleksii Danilov, who served as secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, and Valerii Zaluzhnyi as head of the equipped forces on Feb. 8. He was designated Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom earlier this month.
Ukraine’s air force stated Saturday that Russia released 12 Shahed drones overnight, 9 of which were shot down, and fired 4 rockets into eastern Ukraine.
Russia letloose a barrage of 38 rockets, 75 airstrikes and 98 attacks from several rocket launchers over the last 24 hours, Ukraine’s armed forces stated in social media posts.
Ukrainian energy business Centrenergo revealed Saturday that the Zmiiv Thermal Power Plant, one of the biggest thermal power plants in the eastern Kharkiv area, was entirely ruined following Russian shelling last week. Power interruption schedules were still in location for around 120,000 individuals in the area, where 700,000 individuals had lost electricalpower after the plant was struck on March 22.
Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities in current days, triggering considerable damage in numerous areas.
Officials in the Poltava area stated Saturday there hadactually been “several strikes” to an facilities center, without defining whether it was an energy center.
Meanwhile, the toll of Friday’s mass barrage of 99 drones and rockets striking areas throughout Ukraine came to light on Saturday, with regional authorities in the Kherson area on Saturday earlymorning revealing the death of one civilian. A citizen of the Dnipropetrovsk area passedaway in a healthcarefacility from shell injuries, according to local Gov. Serhiy Lisak.
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