Just days after sacking popular defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov, the Ukrainian president decided to appease critics by letting the commander-in-chief go too.
A heavy wave of Russian ballistic missile and drone strikes has left people dead across Ukraine, prompting renewed appeals from Kyiv for urgent defensive interceptor supplies.
Ukraine launched a wave of more than 400 UAVs overnight targeting the Russian capital and its surrounding regions, wounding at least 10 and setting multiple buildings on fire.
Prosecutors say the suspect worked on behalf of Russian intelligence to vandalise war memorials, recruit accomplices and exploit historic tensions between Poland and Ukraine.
The outgoing prime minister is spending his last days in office promoting Britain’s role in Ukraine while leaving behind a government that lost the confidence of its own MPs.
“Bring Fedorov back!” Central Kyiv witnessed more than a thousand people gather, singing the Ukrainian national anthem, waving Ukrainian and EU flags, and chanting “shame.”
Following a request from Kyiv, the extension of protection until 2028 excludes newly arriving men of military age but the existing rights for 4.4M current beneficiaries remain unaffected.
