Volodymyr Zelensky fired his personal security chief, according to a decree issued Thursday.
The move comes two days after Ukrainian authorities said they had foiled a Russian plot to assassinate Ukraine’s president and several senior military officials.
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More than two years of war in Ukraine
Russian strategic nuclear forces are “always” ready for combat, Vladimir Putin underlined Thursday, May 9 during his speech to celebrate the Soviet victory against Hitler. The Russian president oversaw the May 9 military parade in Red Square, a centerpiece of the Kremlin’s narrative extolling the country’s power. More than 9,000 military personnel, according to Russian media, armored vehicles, missile launchers and combat aircraft took part.
Volodymyr Zelensky fired his personal security chief, according to a decree published Thursday, two days after Ukrainian authorities claimed to have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate the Ukrainian president and several senior military officials.
At the same time, the former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armies Valery Zalouzhny, replaced in February and very popular, was officially appointed ambassador to the United Kingdom, a key ally of kyiv in its war against Russia, the presidency announced . President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree on the appointment of Mr. Zaluzhny to the post of ambassador, according to this document.
In Russia, separate Ukrainian strikes killed two women in the border regions of Belgorod and Kursk, their respective governors said. The governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, said that a resident had been killed and another injured by a “bombing raid” Ukrainian in the village of Tiotkino, very close to the border. Vyacheslav Gladkov, head of the Belgorod region, told him that a Ukrainian strike had killed a resident of the village of Novaya Tavoljanka, also very close to Ukraine.
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kyiv’s forces, for their part, struck with a drone a Russian refinery in the republic of Bashkortostan, at a record distance of nearly 1,200 km from the border, a Source in the Ukrainian sector told AFP. defense. “A long-range drone ‘paid a visit’ to the republic of Bashkortostan, where it struck the Neftekhim Salavat refinery (of Russian giant) Gazprom”, located in the town of Salavat, this Source indicated. According to the latter, the drone beat a “record” by flying a distance of 1,500 kilometers to hit this refinery, one of the largest in Russia and located in Salavat.
Two people were killed by Russian bombing in Nikopol, southern Ukraine, local authorities said Thursday, and the country suffered a new drone attack the previous night, but no casualties were reported. time was recorded. “Enemy artillery killed two people: a 62-year-old man and a 65-year-old woman”said Sergiï Lysak, the governor of Dnipropetrovsk province, who published photographs of a house with a burning roof and other damaged buildings.
