Principal assistant Serhiy Shefir was amongst these dismissed in addition to three advisers and two presidential representatives.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired a longtime aide and several other advisers in an ongoing reshuffle on Saturday, whereas Russia unleashed new assaults in a single day.
Zelenskyy fired first assistant Serhiy Shefir from his place as first assistant, the place he had served since 2019.
The Ukrainian president additionally left three advisers and two presidential representatives who oversee the actions of volunteers and the rights of troopers.
No clarification was instantly given for the most recent adjustments in a large-scale workers shakeup in latest months.
That included the dismissal on Tuesday of Oleksii Danilov, who served as secretary of the Nationwide Safety and Protection Council, and Valerii Zaluzhnyi as head of the armed forces on February 8.
Zaluzhnyi was appointed Ukraine's ambassador to the UK earlier this month.
Drones, and missiles fired throughout Ukraine
Ukraine's air power stated on Saturday that Russia launched 12 Shahed drones in a single day, 9 of which had been shot down, and fired 4 missiles into japanese Ukraine.
Russia launched a barrage of 38 missiles, 75 air raids and 98 assaults from a number of rocket launchers up to now 24 hours, Ukraine's armed forces stated in social media posts.
Two folks had been killed and one wounded in Russian shelling in Ukraine's partially occupied Donetsk province, regional governor Vadym Filashkin stated Saturday.
Ukrainian power firm Centrenergo has introduced that the Zmiiv Thermal Energy Plant, one of many largest thermal energy crops within the japanese Kharkiv area, has been utterly destroyed following Russian bombings final week.
Energy outage schedules had been nonetheless in place for about 120,000 folks within the area, the place 700,000 folks misplaced electrical energy after the plant was hit on March 22.
Russia has escalated its assaults on Ukrainian power infrastructure in latest days, inflicting important harm in lots of areas.
Officers within the Poltava area stated on Saturday that there had been “a number of hits” at an infrastructure facility with out specifying whether or not it was an power facility.
In the meantime, Friday's mass toll of 99 drones and missiles hitting areas throughout Ukraine got here to gentle Saturday, with native officers 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 keeping with regional governor Serhiy Lisak.
