Zelensky replaces protection minister
Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, stated he was changing his minister of protection, within the largest shake-up within the management of Ukraine’s battle effort since Russia’s invasion started. He cited the necessity for “new approaches” because the battle after greater than 18 months of battle.
The destiny of the protection minister, Oleksii Reznikov, had been the topic of hypothesis in Ukraine as monetary improprieties within the ministry had come to mild and the federal government had began investigations into official corruption. He’s to get replaced by Rustem Umerov, the chairman of Ukraine’s State Property Fund and a member of an opposition get together.
Ukraine is within the midst of a significant counteroffensive, slowly gaining territory within the south and the east. Final week, Ukrainian officers stated they’d captured the southern village of Robotyne, suggesting that the offensive had penetrated the primary layer of Russian defenses between Ukraine’s forces and Russian-occupied Crimea.
Quotable: “Oleksii Reznikov has gone by way of greater than 550 days of full-scale battle,” Zelensky stated in a press release. “I imagine that the ministry wants new approaches and different codecs of interplay with each the army and society at massive.”
In different information from the battle:
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Months after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, which unleashed untold financial, environmental and human struggling, many communities are nonetheless reeling.
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Russian forces launched waves of drones on the Odesa area of southern Ukraine in an hourslong in a single day assault, injuring no less than two folks.
Heavy rain causes chaos at Burning Man
Hundreds of individuals have been stranded on the Burning Man competition, an annual celebration of artwork, music and counterculture vibes in a distant patch of Nevada desert, after torrential rains turned roads and grounds into muck. Members have been advised to preserve meals and water, and the authorities are investigating the dying of 1 participant. Right here’s what we all know.
Worsening circumstances and heavier rainfall yesterday might delay folks leaving the occasion, which ends at the moment and in regular circumstances causes an extended backup of visitors.
A White Home official stated that President Biden had been briefed on the state of affairs and that administration officers have been in contact with state and native officers. Accounts of the mud and efforts to depart ricocheted throughout social media and have become one thing of a sensation in themselves.
Particulars: Every year the competition hosts greater than 70,000 folks from world wide to a desolate, arid panorama greater than 140 miles from the closest metropolis. The one entry is by way of both a two-lane rural freeway or a small, short-term airport, each of which have been closed yesterday.
South Africa investigates a Russian ship
An investigation by the South African authorities discovered that weapons weren’t loaded onto a Russian vessel underneath American sanctions that docked close to Cape City final 12 months, President Cyril Ramaphosa stated. The report adopted accusations from U.S. officers that South Africa had offered arms for the battle in Ukraine. A abstract shall be made public at the moment.
It stays to be seen whether or not the findings will soothe the connection between South Africa and the U.S., which is extra tense than it has been in years largely due to the dispute over the ship.
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Nearly three weeks after the British Museum was plunged into disaster by the revelation of thefts from its storerooms, the London establishment stated it could appoint Mark Jones, a former director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London, as its interim director.
An overflowing tray awaits him: In current weeks, international locations together with Greece and Nigeria have renewed claims for artifacts within the British Museum’s assortment. The museum can also be set to announce a significant refurbishment undertaking, requiring appreciable fund-raising.
