Kuleba's resignation comes a day after five ministers stepped down as part of the biggest government reshuffle in the 30-month war against Russia. Moscow has intensified attacks on Ukrainian territory, killing over 50 people in Poltava and three in Lviv in latest strikes.
The 'major government reset' leaves a third of Zelenskyy's Cabinet vacant as Ukraine's war with Russia enters a crucial juncture. This came after Russia launched two ballistic missiles at Ukraine's Poltava town on Tuesday, killing 50 and injuring 271 others.
The Ukrainian President said in a video that the Russian forces hit the city with two ballistic missiles, damaging a building of the Institute of Communications.
Russian forces are advancing faster in eastern Ukraine than they have done for a long time, taking several square kilometres per day, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday as Moscow's forces tried to smash through a major Ukrainian defensive line.
Loud explosions rocked Ukraine's capital Kyiv early on Monday as Russia launched a barrage of missiles, sparking fires and damaging homes and infrastructure, officials said.
Russia views Ukraine's Kursk incursion as a "major provocation" and has threatened to retaliate while it advances in the eastern Pokrovsk city. Zelenskyy has recently pushed for renewed peace negotiations on Ukrainian terms, and the incursion was part of the plan to pit pressure on Russia.
PM Modi went on a historic trip to Ukraine to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, becoming the first Indian leader to visit the war-ravaged countries in over 30 years of diplomatic relations. However, the journey to Kyiv was filled with many challenges for Indian journalists covering the visit.
Russia unleashed a massive drone and missile barrage throughout Ukraine on Monday, and at least five people were reported killed in the attack that appeared to target energy infrastructure.
Russia's Saratov regional airport imposed flight curbs on Monday after homes were damaged as a result of Ukraine's drone attack that wounded a woman.
A member of the Reuters team covering the war in Ukraine was missing and two others were hospitalised after a strike on a hotel in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on a historic visit to Ukraine where he met President Zelenskyy. He extended an invitation to the Ukrainian President to visit India, to which the latter said that he would be happy to "meet again in India".
Zelenskyy's remarks came while addressing a press conference after meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Kyiv on Friday. He said that Putin will be forced to stop the war in Ukraine "if India changes its stance".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on a historic visit to Ukraine on Friday where he held a meeting with President Zelenskyy. India and Ukraine inked four agreements.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks during meeting with President Zelenskyy. PM Modi reiterated India's stance on the Ukraine-Russia war and said that India was "never neutral" on the issue and was always on the side of peace.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on a historic visit to Ukraine where he met President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and held talks on Russia-Ukraine war.
PM Modi and Volodymyr Zelenskyy were seen hugging and shaking hands together as they paid tribute to fallen children at the Martyrologist Exposition in Kyiv. PM Modi’s hand remained firmly on Zelenskyy's shoulder -- a symbolic gesture of India's solidarity with Ukraine amid its war with Russia.
PM Modi and Volodymyr Zelenskyy were seen hugging and shaking hands together. As the two leaders toured the war-torn country's Martyrologist Exposition, PM Modi’s hand remained firmly on Zelenskyy's shoulder -- a symbolic gesture of India's solidarity with Ukraine.
PM disembarked from the Train Force One in Kyiv after a 10-hour train journey from Poland and greeted Ukrainian officials and the Indian diaspora after his arrival. He is the first Indian PM to visit the country after Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
As he arrived in Kyiv on Friday, PM Modi has become one of the few leaders who has visited both Russia and Ukraine after the war began. India's diplomatic relations with Ukraine were formally established in 1992, and Delhi has relied on Kyiv for supply of military technology and medicine.
As of August 2023, PM Modi has embarked on 80 foreign trips, including Poland and Ukraine, indicating his focus on enhancing India's global stature. His visit to Ukraine makes him to first Indian PM to arrive in the war-torn country in over 30 years of diplomatic ties.
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