Ten killed in attacks in Russia and Ukraine as protests continue in Kyiv | News of the Russian-Ukrainian war

Airstrikes between Russia and Ukraine have killed 10 people on both sides of the border, as Ukrainians took to the streets for a second day to protest the sacking of their country’s defense minister.

Russian drones struck port facilities in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv on Friday, destroying three foreign-registered ships, according to prosecutors. One of the attacks on the train killed two Ukrainians on board, he said.

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Earlier, in the Black Sea city of Odesa, two people were killed and eight were injured when a Russian missile hit a residential building, said mayor Oleksandr Filatov.

“Among the people who were killed was a woman who was walking in the park with her children during the attack. The children survived and are receiving the necessary help,” the emergency aid said.

Apartments, a religious institution, a school, cars and other civilian equipment were destroyed in the bombing, Filatov said.

Russian airstrikes also hit a bus in the central-eastern Ukrainian city of Marhanets, killing one person and wounding eight others, according to a military commander.

On the Kherson front, a 70-year-old woman was killed and five others, all elderly, were wounded in a Russian attack, the city’s military commanders said.

Two more people were killed in a drone attack in Ukraine on a freeway in the Russian region of Kherson, according to the elected governor of Moscow, Vladimir Vasilenko.

In Russia, a man was killed after a drone hit his car in the Belgorod region, on the border with Ukraine, the regional government said.

One person has been killed in a Ukrainian attack on Gorlivka, a town in eastern Ukraine controlled by Russia, Moscow-based governor Ivan Prikhodko said.

The latest attacks come as civil strife continues in Ukraine over the ousting of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. of the Minister of Defense Mykhailo Fedorov as part of the cabinet reshuffle.

The emergence of 35-year-old Fedorov, who wanted to improve the modern service and was known as Recent military success in UkraineHe has revealed his pain division within the establishment of the Ukrainian army.

After being forced to resign, Fedorov harshly criticized General Oleksandr Syrskyi, with whom he had been at odds, and questioned whether Ukraine could defeat Russia with him in charge.

‘Listen to the people’

Protesters staged a second day in Kyiv on Friday, with some gathering outside Zelenskyy’s office demanding the re-election of ⁠Fedorov.

Demonstrations in the capital attracted thousands of people, AFP reported.

Pro-Fedorov supporters also gathered in the cities of Kharkiv, Ternopil, Mykolaiv, Chernivtsi and Lutsk, reported Ukraine’s Ukrinform news agency.

“I really believe and hope that the authorities, after all, will listen to the people – that they will listen to the will of the people,” Valeria Balenko, a 29-year-old protester who gathered outside Zelenskyy’s office, was quoted as saying by Reuters.

“Because this is what people want, for the lives of our soldiers and for the sake of civilians who live under the threat of air strikes every day,” said Balenko.

Zelenskyy on Thursday named Yevgeniy Khmara – the head of Ukraine’s SBU – as the defense minister, saying that he “has unprecedented experience in the history of technical warfare”.

Zelenskyy appointed former interior minister Ihor Klymenko as chairman of Ukraine’s Defense and Security Council.