President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Ukraine’s ambassador to the US, Olha Stefanishyna, without publicly stating a reason, days after she said he had not asked her to resign.
Meanwhile, Russian attacks across four districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region killed four people, including a child, and wounded 15 others.
In the Kherson region, a Russian drone destroyed Beryslav’s nearly 300-year-old Holy Vvedenska Church, a protected monument built by Cossacks without metal nails.
Zelensky also said Ukraine would seek to generate enough diplomatic, economic and military pressure to force Russia toward peace before winter, while acknowledging that the timing could not be guaranteed.
In Russia, Wildberries reportedly banned warehouse employees from carrying smartphones after workers filmed drone attacks and air raid alerts near its facilities.
At the same time, Georgia’s only oil refinery confirmed it was phasing out Russian crude and switching to supplies from Kazakhstan and Libya.
