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Ukraine's defence minister is dismissing three of his deputies in a reshuffle as Kyiv struggles to fend off Moscow's 2 1/2-year-old invasion, he said on Tuesday.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed on Sunday former arms production minister Oleksandr Kamyshin as an external adviser for strategic issues, a decree published on the presidential website said.

The Ukrainian president has said his war-ravaged country needs “new energy” as he ordered the biggest government reshuffle since the start of the conflict with Russia.

Speaking to TVP World, Bohdan Nahaylo said that the reasons behind Zelenskyy’s reshuffle remained unclear.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has fired four deputy defense ministers and replaced one with the daughter of his late cousin.

Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, has brought in trusted associates to run the country’s interior and state asset ministries as part of a cabinet reshuffle announced on Friday.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk revealed on Wednesday that the government’s comprehensive reconstruction is now complete, marking a transition in the country’s political landscape. As part of this restructuring, four ministers are slated to tender their resignations on Friday, May 10, signaling a strategic reshuffle within the administration. Tusk urged Justice Minister Adam Bodnar to take immediate steps, in collaboration with the disciplinary court and potentially the Supreme Court, to revoke the immunity of Judge Tomasz Szmydt.

Poland’s main parties are readying their lists of candidates for elections on June 9 to the European Parliament (EP) in Strasbourg, with some current ministers tipped to run.