Russian attacks overnight on Ukraine killed at least four civilians and wounded 20, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Kosiniak-Kamysz called the ballistic missile assault “the most powerful since the invasion began” and said it demonstrated that Russia was preparing another mobilization drive. “This demonstrates how detached from reality calls to reduce support for Ukraine or slow the modernization of the Polish military are,

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The removal of Ukraine’s popular defense minister despite recent military successes has sparked rare protests in Kyiv and an unprecedented public split in the military over the conduct of the war against Russia.

Mykhailo Fedorov’s removal is a distraction from a defence effort that had finally seemed to put Ukraine on the front foot.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired the country's popular defense minister, who pushed for innovation in the battlefield through the use of drones and turned the tables on Russia.

By Yuliia Dysa, Max Hunder and Dan Peleschuk KYIV, July 16 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy moved to extinguish a political crisis on Thursday sparked by his dismissal of a reformist defence minister,

Mykhailo Fedorov criticized the country’s top general and blamed the military leadership for blocking his attempts to overhaul the armed forces.

Mykhailo Fedorov defended his efforts to modernize the Ukrainian armed forces as thousands of people protested his dismissal.

Protests erupted in Ukraine on Thursday after Mykhailo Fedorov's removal - and now soldiers are also criticising the move.

Champion of drones Fedorov was popular, successful defence minister. In his brief tenure he fought corruption and ruffled feathers, Sacking him may be a big mistake.