Zelenskyy Fires Senior Aide in Continuing Reshuffle – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy carried out a series of dismissals on Saturday, part of an ongoing restructuring of leadership in Kyiv. Among those let go was his longtime aide, Serhiy Shefir, who had been serving as first assistant since 2019.
Additionally, three advisers and two presidential representatives overseeing volunteer activities and soldiers’ rights were also relieved of their duties, as reported by the media. No specific reasons were provided for these latest changes, which are part of a broader personnel overhaul that has been underway for several months.
These actions on Saturday come after the recent dismissal of Oleksii Danilov, the former secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, who is being succeeded by Oleksandr Lytvynenko, the head of Ukraine’s foreign intelligence service. Last month, Zelenskyy replaced Valerii Zaluzhnyi as head of the armed forces, appointing him Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom earlier this month.
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Meanwhile, Ukraine’s air force reported on Saturday that Russia had launched 12 Shahed drones overnight, with nine of them being successfully shot down, along with firing four missiles into eastern Ukraine. Over the past 24 hours, Russia’s assault included 38 missiles, 75 airstrikes, and 98 attacks from multiple rocket launchers, as stated by Ukraine’s armed forces in social media updates.
On Saturday, Ukrainian energy company Centrenergo announced that the Zmiiv Thermal Power Plant, one of the largest in the eastern Kharkiv region, had been destroyed due to Russian shelling the previous week. Power outage schedules remained in effect for approximately 120,000 people in the region, where 700,000 had lost electricity after the plant was struck on March 22, according to the Associated Press.
Recent attacks by Russia on Ukrainian energy infrastructure have caused significant damage across multiple regions. Officials in the Poltava region stated on Saturday that there had been “several hits” on an infrastructure facility, though they did not specify whether it was related to energy.
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