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These dismissed included high aide Serhiy Shafir in addition to three advisers and two presidential deputies.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fired a longtime ally and a number of other advisers on Saturday in a seamless reshuffle, whereas Russia launched new assaults in a single day.
Zelensky dismissed high aide Serhiy Shafir from his put up as first assistant, the place he had served since 2019.
The Ukrainian president additionally let go three advisers and two presidential representatives who oversaw volunteer actions and troopers' rights.
No rationalization was instantly given for the most recent adjustments in a sweeping personnel shuffle in latest months.
This included the dismissal of Oleksiy Danilov, serving as secretary of the Nationwide Safety and Protection Council, on Tuesday, and Valery Zaluzny as chief of employees of the armed forces on February 8.
Zaluzny was appointed Ukraine's ambassador to the UK earlier this month.
Drones and missiles fired throughout Ukraine
Ukraine's air drive mentioned on Saturday that Russia launched 12 downed drones in a single day, capturing down 9 of them, and 4 missiles at jap Ukraine.
Ukraine's armed forces mentioned in a social media put up that Russia launched 38 missile salvos, 75 airstrikes and 98 assaults from a number of rocket launchers prior to now 24 hours.
Two folks have been killed and one wounded in Russian shelling in Ukraine's partially occupied Donetsk province, regional governor Vadim Fylashkin mentioned Saturday.
Ukrainian vitality firm Centrenergo introduced that the Zmiiv thermal energy plant, one of many largest thermal energy vegetation within the jap Kharkiv area, was utterly destroyed after Russian shelling final week.
Scheduled energy outages have been nonetheless in place for about 120,000 folks within the area, the place 700,000 misplaced energy after the plant was hit on March 22.
Russia has elevated its assaults on Ukrainian vitality infrastructure in latest days, inflicting important harm in a number of areas.
Poltava area officers mentioned Saturday that there had been “a number of assaults” on an infrastructure facility, with out specifying whether or not it was an vitality facility.
In the meantime, the loss of life toll from Friday's large drone and missile assaults on areas throughout Ukraine rose to 99 on Saturday, with native authorities within the Kherson area asserting the loss of life of a civilian. A resident of the Dnipropetrovsk area died in a hospital from shell wounds, in line with regional governor Serhiy Lysak.