Separate Ukrainian strikes killed two women in the Russian border regions of Belgorod and Kursk on Thursday, their respective governors announced, as such attacks have increased in recent months. At the same time, the Ukrainian president fired his security chief after revelations of a Russian plot against him and several senior military officials.
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⇒ Zelensky fires his security chief
⇒ Russian strategic forces are “always” ready for combat
⇒ Ukrainian strikes in the Belgorod and Kursk regions
Zelensky fires his security chief
Volodymyr Zelensky fired his personal security chief, according to a decree issued Thursday, two days after Ukrainian authorities claimed to have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate Ukraine’s president and several top military officials.
Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree to “remove Sergei Leonidovich Rud from his post as head of the State Protection Department of Ukraine”, according to this text.
Russian strategic forces are “always” combat ready
Russian strategic nuclear forces are “always” ready for combat, Vladimir Putin stressed on Thursday during his speech to celebrate the Soviet victory against Hitler, amid tensions linked to the conflict in Ukraine.
The Russian president oversaw the May 9 military parade in Red Square, a centerpiece of the Kremlin’s narrative extolling the country’s power. More than 9,000 military personnel, according to Russian media, armored vehicles, missile launchers and combat aircraft took part.
“Russia will do everything to avoid a global confrontation. But, at the same time, we will not allow anyone to threaten us. Our strategic (nuclear) forces are always on alert,” declared the Russian president.
Ukrainian strikes in the Belgorod and Kursk regions
Separate Ukrainian strikes killed two women in the Russian border regions of Belgorod and Kursk on Thursday, their respective governors announced, as such attacks have increased in recent months.
The governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, said that a resident had been killed and another injured by a Ukrainian “bombing” on the village of Tiotkino, very close to the border. Vyacheslav Gladkov, head of the Belgorod region, told him that a Ukrainian strike had killed a resident of the village of Novaya Tavoljanka, also very close to Ukraine.