Dismissal comes two days after two state guards were accused of plotting to assassinate Ukrainian president
Ukraine- Russia war: Ukrainian rescuers work to extinguish a fire after an overnight missile strike on private buildings in Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine. Photograph: EPAThe decree Mr Zelenskiy issued dismissing the head of the state guards, Serhiy Rud, comes two days after two of its members were accused of plotting to assassinate the Ukrainian president. No successor was identified.
Mr Mishustin, the former head of Russia’s tax service, has kept a low profile, steering clear of political statements and avoiding media interviews.”as Russia launched an overnight attack in the northeast Kharkiv region, but two people were injured and residential buildings were consumed by fire as a result, Ukrainian officials said on Friday.
Mayor Ihor Terekhov said an S-300 missile crashed into the city, damaging 26 buildings, destroying two of them, but he did not clarify what those buildings were. Another guided bomb attack damaged around 25 buildings when it landed near an infrastructure facility in the town of Derhachi near the Russian border, an official said.
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