KYIV: Russia launched the &quot;most powerful&quot; attack this year on Ukraine&#39;s battered energy facilities overnight, Kyiv said on Tuesday, leaving hundreds of thousands without heating in frigid temperatures ahead of talks to end the four-year <a href="https://www.pakistantv.com/article/russian-strikes-in-ukraine-kill-12-target-passenger-train" style="color:#0073e6;">war</a>. Russia&#39;s strikes hit as temperatures dropped to their lowest since the start of the war in February 2022, killing two teenagers in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia and damaging a Soviet-era World War II monument. The attack came a day before Ukrainian and Russian negotiators were due to meet for a second round of US-brokered talks in Abu Dhabi. &quot;Taking advantage of the coldest days of winter to terrorize people is more important to Russia than turning to diplomacy,&quot; Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, denouncing the attack. He said Russia had &quot;once again disregarded the efforts of the American side.&quot; US President Donald Trump urged Vladimir Putin to &quot;end the war,&quot; adding that he &quot;would like&quot; his Russian counterpart to extend a brief halt in attacks due to the frigid temperatures. NATO chief Mark Rutte, who visited Kyiv on Tuesday, said &quot;Russian attacks like those last night do not signal seriousness about peace.&quot; An air alert blared out across Kyiv during Rutte&#39;s visit. AFP journalists heard explosions across the capital overnight, and residents in hundreds of buildings woke to find their heating cut off as temperatures dipped towards minus 20C. More than 1,100 residential buildings remained without heat as of late Tuesday, Restoration Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said. Some residents gathered around a damaged building, stepping over creaking debris and a thick layer of ice coating the ground. &quot;Our windows are broken, and we have no heating,&quot; Anastasia Grytsenko told AFP. &quot;We don&#39;t know what to do.&quot; Russia&#39;s defense ministry confirmed it had launched &quot;a massive strike&quot; against &quot;Ukrainian military-industrial complex enterprises and energy facilities.&quot; The Kremlin had last week said it agreed to a US request not to strike Kyiv for seven days, ending Sunday. Ukraine had not reported large-scale Russian attacks on the capital last week, while denouncing continued attacks in other parts of the country. &quot;Several types of ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as drones, were used to strike high-rise buildings and thermal power plants,&quot; Energy Minister Denys Shmygal said. &quot;Hundreds of thousands of families, including children, were deliberately left without heat in the harshest winter frosts,&quot; he added. Tuesday&#39;s strike on energy facilities was &quot;the most powerful&quot; since the start of 2026, Ukraine&#39;s largest private energy provider confirmed. Ukraine&#39;s air force said Russia had attacked with 71 missiles and 450 attack drones. Six people were wounded in the capital, officials said. A drone strike on the southern city of Zaporizhzhia also killed two teenagers and wounded at least 11 people, officials said. &#39;Symbolic and cynical&#39; The base of Kyiv&#39;s towering Soviet-era Motherland statue was damaged. &quot;It is both symbolic and cynical: the aggressor state strikes at a place of remembrance of the struggle against aggression in the 20th century, repeating its crimes in the 21st century,&quot; Culture Minister Tetyana Berezhna wrote on social media. Recent Russian strikes have repeatedly cut power and heating to tens of thousands of homes. Strikes also hit Ukraine&#39;s second-largest city, Kharkiv, temporarily cutting heating to around 100,000 subscribers. Authorities had to cut heating to more than 800 homes to prevent the wider network from freezing, the regional governor said. Overnight temperatures had plunged to minus 19C in Kyiv and minus 23C in Kharkiv. US pushes for deal Russian occupation authorities in southern Ukraine said Ukrainian shelling had killed three people in the town of Nova Kakhovka. Kremlin-installed authorities said the shelling hit a municipal building and a fruit shop. &quot;There are dead: three people, including an employee of the administration,&quot; said Vladimir Saldo, the Moscow-backed head of the Russian-controlled part of the Kherson region. Nova Kakhovka fell to Russian forces in the first days of their 2022 invasion. The United States has sought to craft a settlement between the two sides, but a first round of <a href="https://www.pakistantv.com/article/first-round-of-usrussiaukraine-talks-ends-in-abu-dhabi" style="color:#0073e6;">trilateral</a> talks held in Abu Dhabi last month failed to yield a breakthrough. A second round is due to <a href="https://www.pakistantv.com/article/kremlin-confirms-ukraine-war-talks-this-week-in-abu-dhabi" style="color:#0073e6;">begin</a> on Wednesday in the Emirati capital, and is expected to focus on the crucial issue of territory. Russia has demanded Kyiv withdraw from the Donetsk region and has repeatedly said it is ready to seize the rest of eastern Ukraine by force if diplomacy fails.

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US has sought to craft a settlement between the two sides, but a first round of trilateral talks held in Abu Dhabi last month failed to yield a breakthrough; second round is due to begin on Wednesday in the Emirati capital, and is expected to focus on the crucial issue of territory.

Russia resumes large-scale Ukraine strikes in freezing weather

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KYIV: NATO chief Mark Rutte was in&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;" id="isPasted">Kyiv&nbsp;on Tuesday for a surprise visit just hours after Russia launched its largest drone and missile attack so far this year. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted a video of the pair laying flowers at a memorial in central Kyiv to soldiers killed in the Russian invasion. This is a developing story. Please refresh the page to see updated information as it becomes available.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posts a video of the pair laying flowers at a memorial in central Kyiv to soldiers killed in the Russian invasion.

NATO chief in Kyiv on surprise visit hours after Russian attack

MOSCOW: Russia has confirmed that a new round of talks with Ukraine and the United States in Abu Dhabi on ending the four-year-war will start Wednesday, after they were postponed from this weekend. Moscow blamed a scheduling issue for the delay, a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also said the negotiations would take place in the UAE capital on Wednesday and Thursday. &quot;They were indeed originally planned for this past Sunday. But additional coordination of the schedules of the three parties was needed,&quot; Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters &quot;Now, on Wednesday-Thursday, the second round will indeed take place. It will be held in Abu Dhabi. We can confirm that,&quot; he added. The talks will take place less than two weeks before the fourth anniversary of Moscow launching its full-scale offensive against Ukraine. They are expected to focus on the crucial issue of territory, with neither side so far showing any sign of a breakthrough. Washington is pushing for an end to the war between the neighbours, which has killed tens of thousands, forced millions to flee their homes and destroyed much of eastern and southern Ukraine.

A Palestinian delegation convoy drives inside the Kremlin grounds during talks between Russian President and Palestinian President in central Moscow on January 22, 2026. (AFP)

Moscow blamed a scheduling issue for the delay, a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky also said the negotiations would take place in the UAE capital.

Kremlin confirms Ukraine war talks this week in Abu Dhabi

ODESA: Russian forces in Ukraine killed 12 people and struck energy infrastructure and a passenger train overnight on Tuesday, authorities said, days after negotiators from both sides held direct talks aimed at ending nearly four years of war. In the northeastern Kharkiv region, a drone hit a carriage of a train transporting nearly 200 passengers, killing at least five people, Ukraine&#39;s Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko posted on X. &quot;There is not and cannot be any military justification for killing civilians in a train carriage,&quot; Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram. Prosecutors posted images of the smoldering carriage on social media, which regional emergency services later said had been extinguished. A barrage of more than 50 Russian drones killed three people and wounded more than 30 in the southern city of Odesa, regional officials said. The Black Sea city key for Ukrainian exports has been routinely pummeled by Russian forces. Regional governor Oleg Kiper said a woman, 39 weeks pregnant, and two girls were among the wounded. An AFP journalist at the scene saw the collapsed facade of a residential building and rescue workers searching the rubble for victims. Zelensky said the bombardment undermined peace efforts and urged allies to step up pressure on Moscow to end the war. &quot;Every such Russian strike erodes the diplomacy that is still ongoing and undermines the efforts of partners who are helping to end this war,&quot; he wrote on social media. Deadly strikes on energy infrastructure that have left many Ukrainians without power in freezing temperatures have continued since Russian and Ukrainian negotiators met in the United Arab Emirates last week for US-brokered talks aimed at ending the conflict. The next round is expected to take place on Feb. 1, according to Zelensky. Millions without power&nbsp;Ukrainian private energy firm DTEK said Russian forces had inflicted &quot;enormous&quot; damage on one of its facilities in the Odesa region overnight. Kiper said dozens of residential buildings, a church, a kindergarten, and schools had been damaged in the attacks. A married couple aged 45 and 48 were killed in Sloviansk in the eastern Donetsk region, which the Kremlin claims to have annexed. Their 20-year-old son survived the attack, local prosecutors said. In the southern region of Zaporizhzhia, a 58-year-old man was killed in a drone attack. A 72-year-old was killed in her home by Russian shelling in the southern Kherson region. Russian drone and missile attacks have knocked out power, lighting and heat to millions of Ukrainians across the country. The Ukrainian air force said Russia had launched 165 attack drones overnight, and officials said an infrastructure facility in the western Lviv region was hit. State gas company Naftogaz said the attack had left one of its facilities on fire in western Ukraine, describing it as the fifth attack of its kind this month. Russian forces are slowly advancing across the front. The Russian defense ministry announced on Tuesday it had captured two more villages in the Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv regions.

Prosecutors post images on social media of a smoldering carriage; regional emergency services later said the fire had been extinguished.



Russian strikes in Ukraine kill 12, target passenger train

ABU DHABI: Negotiators from Russia, Ukraine, and the United States met Friday in Abu Dhabi for the first direct <a href="https://www.pakistantv.com/article/us-ukrainian-and-russian-officials-to-meet-in-uae-kremlin" style="color:#0073e6;">negotiations</a> on a plan being pushed by US President Donald Trump to end the almost four-year-long war. The US initially drafted a plan to end the conflict that was heavily criticised in Kyiv and Western Europe for being too close to Russia&#39;s line. In contrast, later proposals were criticized by Moscow for floating the idea of <a href="https://www.pakistantv.com/article/zelensky-says-europe-fragmented-looks-lost-facing-trump" style="color:#0073e6;">European peacekeepers</a>. Ahead of Friday&#39;s talks, which are set to continue on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said territory remained the key issue, with Moscow having said it is not dropping its demand that Kyiv pull out of its eastern Donbas region. After the first day of talks, Ukraine&#39;s chief negotiator Rustem Umerov posted on social media that the meeting had focused &quot;on the parameters for ending Russia&#39;s war and the further logic of the negotiation process,&quot; adding that meetings were scheduled for Saturday. The UAE foreign ministry said in an earlier statement that the talks were scheduled to last two days and were &quot;part of ongoing efforts to promote dialogue and identify political solutions to the crisis&quot;. Trump met Zelensky at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, and US envoy Steve Witkoff later held talks with Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin. Donbas dispute&nbsp;The Emirates meeting took place as thousands of people in Kyiv were without heating in sub-zero temperatures due to Russian strikes. The European Union, which has sent hundreds of generators, accused Moscow of &quot;deliberately depriving civilians of heat.&quot; Kyiv said Russian strikes had killed three people on Friday in the Kharkiv region and four people &mdash; including a father and his five-year-old son &mdash; overnight in the east. While diplomacy to end Europe&#39;s worst conflict since World War II has gained pace, Moscow and Kyiv appear deadlocked over the issue of territory. Hours after Putin met Witkoff &mdash; and Trump&#39;s son-in-law Jared Kushner &mdash; in Moscow, the Kremlin said its maximalist demand that Kyiv withdraw from the eastern Donbas region still stood. &quot;Russia&#39;s position is well known on the fact that Ukraine, Ukrainian armed forces, have to leave the territory of the Donbas,&quot; Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said. &quot;This is a very important condition,&quot; he added. Kyiv, which still controls around 20% of the eastern region, has rejected such terms. &#39;God willing&#39;&nbsp;Both sides say the fate of territory in Ukraine&#39;s east is one of the main outstanding issues in the search for a settlement to a war that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and decimated eastern Ukraine. &quot;The Donbas is a key issue,&quot; Zelensky &mdash; who said he and Trump had agreed on post-war security guarantees in Davos &mdash; told reporters on Friday, ahead of the talks. Later in a post online, he added: &quot;It is necessary that not only Ukraine has the desire to end the war and achieve full security, but that a similar desire somehow emerges in Russia as well.&quot; Russian and Ukrainian negotiators are last known to have met face-to-face in Istanbul last summer, in talks that ended only in deals to exchange captured soldiers. The Abu Dhabi meeting is the first time they have faced each other to talk about the Trump administration&#39;s plan. Putin has repeatedly said Moscow intends to get full control of eastern Ukraine by force if talks fail. After the Russia-US talks in the Kremlin, Putin aide Yuri Ushakov insisted Moscow was &quot;genuinely interested in resolving&quot; the war diplomatically. But he added: &quot;Until that happens, Russia will continue to achieve its objectives ... on the battlefield.&quot; Trump has in the past pressured Ukraine to agree to terms that Kyiv sees as capitulation. Trump repeated on Wednesday his belief that Putin and Zelensky were close to a deal. &quot;I believe they&#39;re at a point now where they can come together and get a deal done. And if they don&#39;t, they&#39;re stupid &mdash; that goes for both of them,&quot; he said.

Ukraine's chief negotiator says "meeting focused on the parameters for ending Russia's war and the further logic of the negotiation process aimed at advancing toward a dignified and lasting peace." 

Ukraine, Russia hold first direct talks on latest US peace plan

MOSCOW: Ukrainian, US, and Russian officials will meet in the United Arab Emirates on Friday, the Kremlin said, following &quot;useful&quot; talks between President Vladimir Putin and US envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow. Diplomatic efforts to end the Ukraine war have gained pace in recent months, though Moscow and Kyiv remain at odds over the key issue of territory in a post-war settlement. US negotiators, led by envoy Steve Witkoff, talked with the Russian leader in Moscow until the early hours of Friday, according to a Kremlin statement. Kremlin diplomatic adviser Yuri Ushakov told reporters their discussions had been &quot;useful in every respect.&quot; Witkoff and the US team are next flying to Abu Dhabi, where talks are expected to continue. A Russian delegation, headed by General Igor Kostyukov, director of Russia&#39;s GRU military intelligence agency, will also head there &quot;in the coming hours, according to Ushakov. &quot;It was agreed that the first meeting of a trilateral working group on security issues will take place today in Abu Dhabi,&quot; Ushakov added. Further details of the talks in the United Arab Emirates have not been released, and it is not clear whether Russian and Ukrainian officials will meet face-to-face. &quot;We are genuinely interested in resolving (the conflict) through political and diplomatic means,&quot; Ushakov told reporters. &quot;Until that happens, Russia will continue to achieve its objectives... on the battlefield.&quot; On Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a draft deal was &quot;nearly, nearly ready&quot; and that he and Trump had agreed on the issue of post-war security guarantees.

US negotiators, led by envoy Steve Witkoff, talk with the Russian leader in Moscow until the early hours of Friday; Witkoff and the US team are next flying to Abu Dhabi, where talks are expected to continue.

US, Ukrainian and Russian officials to meet in UAE: Kremlin

MOSCOW: Top US negotiators, including Steve Witkoff, met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow late Thursday for talks on a US-drafted plan to end the Ukraine war, just as Kyiv announced it had agreed on post-war security guarantees with Washington. Diplomatic efforts to end Europe&#39;s deadliest conflict since World War II have gained pace in recent months, though both Moscow and Kyiv remain at odds over the key issue of territory in a post-war settlement. Witkoff said earlier he believed the two sides were &quot;down to one issue,&quot; without elaborating. Video published by the Kremlin showed a smiling Putin shaking hands with Witkoff, US President Donald Trump&#39;s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and White House advisor Josh Gruenbaum. Russian negotiator Kirill Dmitriev and Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov took part on the Russian side, the Kremlin said. The high-stakes meeting came just hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said a draft deal was &quot;nearly, nearly ready&quot; and that he and Trump had agreed on the issue of post-war security guarantees. Russia, which occupies around 20% of Ukraine, is pushing for full control of the country&#39;s eastern Donbas region as part of a deal. But Kyiv has warned that ceding ground will embolden Moscow and says it will not sign a peace deal that fails to deter Russia from launching a renewed assault. After meeting Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Zelensky said the security guarantees were &quot;done&quot;, speaking in English to journalists. He said the UK and France had already committed to forces on the ground. Europe &#39;fragmented&#39; Neither Witkoff nor Kushner will stay in the Russian capital overnight, instead flying straight to Abu Dhabi, where talks will continue in &quot;military to military&quot; working groups, Witkoff said. The details of the upcoming talks in the United Arab Emirates have not been released, and it is not clear whether Russian and Ukrainian officials will meet face-to-face. Zelensky said these talks would last two days. Trump repeated on Wednesday his oft-stated belief that Putin and Zelensky were close to a deal. &quot;I believe they&#39;re at a point now where they can come together and get a deal done. And if they don&#39;t, they&#39;re stupid &mdash; that goes for both of them,&quot; he said after delivering a speech at Davos. Zelensky, at his address in Davos, blasted the EU&#39;s lack of &quot;political will&quot; in countering Putin in a fiery address. &quot;Instead of becoming a truly global power, Europe remains a beautiful but fragmented kaleidoscope of small and middle powers,&quot; he said. Trump&#39;s dramatic foreign policy pivots, including a recent bid to take over Greenland &mdash; an autonomous Danish territory &mdash; have stirred worries in Europe about whether Washington can be trusted as a reliable security partner. Zelensky, in his speech, criticized Europe for pinning its hopes on the United States defending it in case of aggression. &quot;Europe looks lost trying to convince the US President to change,&quot; Zelensky said. Russian strikes this week have left most of Kyiv without electricity, with residents of 4,000 buildings without heat in sub-zero temperatures. Russia, which launched its Ukraine offensive in February 2022, says its strikes are aimed at energy infrastructure fuelling Ukraine&#39;s &quot;military-industrial complex.&quot; Kyiv says the strikes are a war crime designed to wear down its civilian population into submission.

Details of the upcoming talks in the UAE have not been released, and it is not clear whether Russian and Ukrainian officials will meet face-to-face; diplomatic efforts to end Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II have gained pace in recent months, though both Moscow and Kyiv remain at odds over the key issue of territory in a post-war settlement.

US negotiators meet Putin for high-stakes Ukraine talks

ISLAMABAD: The Indian Minister for External Affairs Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Poland&rsquo;s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski engaged in a diplomatic row on Tuesday during the European minister&rsquo;s visit to India, with Poland saying Indian participation in the Russian-led Zapad-2025 military drills was considered threatening by the European country.&nbsp; During Sikorski&#39;s visit to India, Jaishankar took a dig at the Polish foreign minister over Poland&rsquo;s relationship with Pakistan. In an attempt to call out the Polish foreign minister&rsquo;s visit to Pakistan last year, Jaishankar said that &ldquo;selective targeting of India is both unfair and unjustified.&rdquo;&nbsp; &ldquo;Deputy Prime Minister, you are no stranger to our region and are more than familiar with the long-standing challenges of cross-border terrorism,&rdquo; the Indian foreign minister said in a meeting with the counterpart. &ldquo;I hope at this meeting to discuss some of your recent travels to the region,&rdquo; Jaishankar said, adding that the European country &ldquo;should display zero tolerance for terrorism and not help fuel the terrorist infrastructure in our neighborhood.&rdquo;&nbsp; While speaking to the press after the meeting, the Polish foreign minister said that all states have &ldquo;regional concerns&rdquo; regarding neighboring countries; however, he added that with neighbors, &ldquo;you have opportunities and challenges.&rdquo;&nbsp; &ldquo;We also have concerns. India took part in the Zapad exercises in Russia that we find threatening,&rdquo; the Polish foreign minister said. He added that he was &quot;very glad that we were able to discuss frankly what&#39;s on our minds.&quot;

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Indian FM targets Polish foreign minister for his visit to Pakistan last year; Sikorski says India’s participation in Russian Zapad exercises is threatening to Poland. 

Poland-India spar over neighbors in diplomatic meet 

PARIS: Key Ukrainian allies were to huddle with top US envoys in Paris on Tuesday to discuss security guarantees, as they press ahead on US-brokered plans to end the war with Russia. The summit of the group of Ukraine supporters dubbed the &quot;Coalition of the Willing&quot; is the latest of several meetings planned for the new year as diplomatic efforts to end Europe&#39;s deadliest conflict since World War II have gained pace in recent weeks. Representatives of 35 countries, including 27 heads of state, will gather in Paris, with the French presidency saying the meeting aims to show the &quot;alignment&quot; between Washington, Kyiv, and European allies on security guarantees for Ukraine. US President Donald Trump&#39;s special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner will attend the meeting of the coalition, launched in the spring by France and the United Kingdom. An adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron said the new meeting is the culmination of efforts launched after Donald Trump&#39;s arrival at the White House to prevent &quot;the United States from abandoning Ukraine.&quot; &quot;We have succeeded in this exercise of realignment between Ukraine, Europe, and America,&quot; the adviser told journalists on Monday. According to diplomatic sources, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is also expected to attend, along with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italy&#39;s Giorgia Meloni, and Canada&#39;s Mark Carney. The leaders are set to commit in particular to their shared vision of what a ceasefire would look like between Ukraine and Russia, and their response in case of violations. They will also discuss the deployment of a multinational force to &quot;reassure Ukraine&quot; as part of a possible political agreement, the French presidency said, with decisions still being &quot;finalized&quot; on Monday. To lay the groundwork, security advisers from 15 countries, including Britain, France, and Germany, as well as representatives from NATO and the European Union, gathered in Kyiv over the weekend, with Witkoff joining virtually. Kyiv said in recent days a deal was &quot;90%&quot; ready, though both Moscow and Kyiv remain at odds over the key issue of territory in any post-war settlement. Russia, which occupies around 20% of Ukraine, is pushing for full control of the country&#39;s eastern Donbas region as part of a deal. But Kyiv has warned that ceding ground will embolden Moscow and said it will not sign a peace deal that fails to deter Russia from invading again.

The summit of the group of Ukraine supporters dubbed the "Coalition of the Willing" is the latest of several meetings planned for the new year as diplomatic efforts to end Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II have gained pace in recent weeks.

Ukraine's European, US allies meet in Paris on security guarantees

KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday said he intended to replace his defense minister and had offered the position to his current minister of digital transformation, who is aged just 34. &quot;I have decided to change the structure of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense,&quot; Zelensky said in his daily address broadcast on social media. &quot;I have offered Mikhailo Fedorov the position of new Ukrainian defense minister.&quot; Fedorov, who has been the digital transformation minister since 2019, is a relative political novice, little-known to the Ukrainian public. &quot;Mykhailo is deeply involved in issues related to drones and is very effective in the digitalization of state services and processes,&quot; Zelensky added. Without explaining his decision to replace Denys Shmygal, the Ukrainian leader said he had proposed the incumbent &quot;head another area of government work that is no less important for our stability.&quot; Zelensky had tapped Shmygal as defense minister just half a year ago, in July 2025. Besides the turnover at the defense ministry, Zelensky also named Ukrainian military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov to head his presidential office. Budanov replaces Andriy Yermak, who was among Ukraine&#39;s most powerful people before being engulfed in a corruption scandal dogging some of Zelensky&#39;s former allies.

Fedorov is a relative political novice little-known to the Ukrainian public; Ukrainian leader said he had proposed the incumbent "head another area of government work that is no less important for our stability."

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