Украин болон ОХУ-ын хооронд ширүүн тулаан үргэлжилж, улс төрийн томоохон өөрчлөлтүүд өрнөв

Russian and Ukrainian attacks on civilian areas in towns and cities, many on the front line of the more than four-year-old war, killed ⁠at least 13 people yesterday, local officials said.

A Russian guided bomb attack on Ukraine’s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia killed three people and wounded 15, regional governor Ivan Fedorov said ⁠on Telegram.

Reuters TV footage showed ​firefighters ⁠dousing the aftermath of blazes and crews sifting through the rubble of shattered buildings in the ⁠city, which has come under intensified attack in recent ​weeks.

Russian ⁠missiles struck the Black ‌Sea port of Odesa, another frequent target of Moscow, killing two people, injuring six and damaging civilian infrastructure.

Outside ‌the city of Kharkiv, near the ‌Russian border, a Russian drone attack killed one person, the national emergency services said. Earlier in the day, a drone attack near ⁠the city of Kupiansk, farther east, killed three people.

In Donetsk region, the focal point of most fighting along the 1,200 km (775-mile) front line, the regional governor said one person was killed and five injured near Kramatorsk, one of the “fortress towns” where Ukraine has bolstered ‌defences.

On the other side of the border, ​local officials in Belgorod Region said one person ‌had died when Ukrainian ⁠forces shelled a settlement near the border.

And the Moscow-installed ⁠head of areas of Donetsk region under Russian control, Denis Pushilin, ‌said one person ​died in an area held ‌by Russian forces.

Prime mininster Keir Starmer has asserted his belief that Ukraine will win the war against Russia.

Sir Keir made his final visit to Ukraine as the outgoing British PM where he met Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv.

Speaking to Sky News, he said: “I believe Ukraine will win this war.”

“What they’ve shown is that it’s not just the size of your army, it’s how you fight a modern conflict. And so they are probably the most effective fighting machine in Europe,” Sir Keir said.

He also assured that the change in power in the UK will not change the dynamics and bilateral ties between London and Kyiv.

“The fact that there will be a new prime minister in the United Kingdom, in the days to come, doesn’t change that dynamic at all,” he said. “The resolve of the United Kingdom remains the same, it will not waver.”

Prime minister Keir Starmer on Thursday pledged €300m (£254m) to help equip Ukraine ⁠with a squadron of 16 Swedish-made Gripen fighter jets, making one of his final commitments to Kyiv before leaving office.

In June, Swedish defence equipment maker Saab signed a contract to ⁠deliver 16 Gripen E fighter aircraft to Ukraine in a deal worth about $2.5bn.

The package includes pilot and engineer training, simulators, spare parts and other equipment needed to operate the ‌aircraft.

Britain said the investment ​would support about 5,000 jobs across ‌more than 50 ⁠UK-based companies involved in the ⁠Gripen programme.

The government said the jets would ‌also ​support efforts to modernise ‌Ukraine’s air force.

Sir Keir, speaking during a visit to the Ukrainian capital, said Britain would work with Sweden to deliver the aircraft to help defend Ukraine against Russian attacks.

Britain said the funding would help Ukraine acquire a squadron of the ‌Swedish-made Gripen E fighter jets ‌by 2029.

Ukraine’s foreign ministry has rejected Russia’s accusations over an attack that killed the chief engineer at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

“No independent ​confirmation of ⁠the ‌Russian version or evidence of Ukraine’s involvement ‌has been ‌presented, and information from Russian ⁠occupation authorities cannot be considered reliable,” the ministry said on Telegram.

It added that Russia ‌was trying ​to use ‌accusations ⁠to intimidate the ⁠international community with ‌the ​threat of ‌a nuclear incident.

The attack killed an engineer at the Zaporizhzhia power plant.

President Volodymyr Zelensky moved to extinguish a political crisis sparked by his dismissal of a reformist defence minister, tapping a security official who has overseen Ukraine’s long-range strikes against Russia for the post.

In a statement, Zelensky said he was appointing Yevhenii Khmara, acting head of Ukraine’s SBU domestic security service, as acting defence minister and would ask parliament to approve him permanently for the post.

“Yevhenii Khmara has gained extensive and, in many respects, unprecedented experience with technological combat operations,” he wrote on X.

“This is exactly where our defence efforts should be focused during this war.”

Ukraine’s long-range strikes on Russia’s oil infrastructure and defence industry have ​helped ⁠weaken Moscow’s war machine in recent months, boosting Ukrainian morale at a critical moment in the more than four-year war.

A brother and sister walk between the crosses at a military cemetery in Kyiv, holding a bunch of carnations. Each cross in that section reads: “unknown defender of Ukraine,” with an ID number below and a note that identification continues.

Yet there is one grave that stands out. Beneath the inscription is an attached photo showing Ihor Yalynych, a soldier last seen alive in 2022 in the Kharkiv region. After four years of searching, Stanislav and Oleksandra Yalynych found their father.

Identification of the dead is a reckoning that will stretch on for years, among the longest-lasting wounds of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Some graves may remain nameless forever, with the families left to wait.

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President ​Volodymyr Zelenski on Thursday appointed the acting head of Ukraine’s ⁠security service, Yevhenii Khmara, as Acting Defence Minister and asked parliament to approve ⁠him ​in the ⁠position.

Zelenskiy, posting on Telegram, said ⁠the SBU Security Service ​had ⁠distinguished itself ‌in the staging of long-range strikes on Russia ‌and that was ‌an advantage in performing the duties of defence ⁠minister.

“I have assigned Yevhenii Khmara to perform the duties of minister, continue reforming the defence sector, and ensure Ukraine ‌achieves all the ​results we have ‌spoken about,” Zelensky ⁠wrote, adding that ⁠he would ask parliament ‌to ​support his choice.

It comes after the president dismissed reformist defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov, triggering rare protests on the streets of Kyiv and other cities.

Ukraine’s parliament approved top energy executive Sergii ​Koretskyi as the country’s new prime minister, the third wartime head of the government appointed in a wider reshuffle announced by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Koretskyi is a ‌widely respected senior energy executive with more than 20 years of experience in oil production and refining, energy retail, wholesale management, ‌and international financing.

Since May 2025, he has ‌been CEO of one of Ukraine’s biggest state companies, Naftogaz, the oil and gas giant, which runs much of Ukraine’s gas production, imports and ⁠supply.

Prior to that, he headed Ukrnafta, Ukraine’s largest oil company and a part of Naftogaz group.

Before moving to the state-owned energy companies, he headed the Western Oil Group, and served as CEO of the Continuum Group and one of the biggest filling station chains in Ukraine, WOG.

Born in Ukraine’s western ‌city of Lutsk, Koretskyi had also founded a coffee ​chain business.