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		</div><p>The deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential office resigned on Tuesday, after Volodymyr Zelenskiy pledged to launch a staff shake-up amid high-level corruption allegations during the war with Russia.</p>
<p>Kyrylo Tymoshenko asked to be relieved of his duties, according to an online copy of a decree signed by the Ukrainian president and Mr Tymoshenko’s own social media posts.</p>
<p>Neither gave a reason for the resignation.</p>
<p>Deputy defence minister Viacheslav Shapovalov also resigned, local media reported, alleging his departure was linked to a scandal involving the purchase of food for the Ukrainian armed forces.</p>
<p>Deputy prosecutor general Oleksiy Symonenko also quit.</p>
<p>Mr Tymoshenko joined the presidential office in 2019, after working on Mr Zelenskiy’s media and creative content strategy during his presidential campaign.</p>
<p>Mr Zelenskiy had promised personnel changes in the government, regional administrations and security forces following corruption allegations that emerged after Russia’s invasion last February.</p>
<p>Last year Mr Tymoshenko was under investigation relating to his personal use of luxury cars.</p>
<p>He was also among officials linked last September to the embezzlement of humanitarian aid worth more than $7 million earmarked for the southern Zaporizhzhia region.</p>
<p>He has denied all the allegations.</p>
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<p>In all, four deputy ministers and five regional governors were set to leave their posts, the cabinet secretary said.</p>
<p>In comments on Sunday, Mr Zelenskiy vowed to drive out corrupt officials, after a deputy minister was dismissed for being part of a network embezzling budget funds.</p>
<p>Ukraine’s infrastructure ministry later identified the dismissed official as Vasyl Lozynsky, a deputy minister there.</p>
<p>In his nightly video address, Mr Zelenskiy said Ukraine’s focus on the war will not stop his government from tackling corruption.</p>
<p>The president, who came to power in 2019 on an anti-establishment and anti-corruption platform, pointed to suspicions in the areas of energy and military procurement.</p>
<p>He said he intends the deputy minister’s dismissal to send “a signal to all those whose actions or behaviour violate the principle of justice”.</p>
<p>“I want to be clear: there will be no return to what used to be in the past,” he said.</p>
<p>Infrastructure minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said Mr Lozynsky was relieved of his duties after Ukraine’s anti-corruption agency detained him while he was receiving a $400,000 bribe for helping to fix contracts related to restoring infrastructure facilities battered by Russian missile strikes.</p>
<p>A statement by the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine described Mr Lozynsky as part of “an organised criminal group involved in the embezzlement of budget funds”.</p>
<p>It said its detectives are working to identify the group’s other members.</p>
<p>Ukraine’s presidential office said at least five civilians had been killed and seven wounded in Ukraine over the previous 24 hours. One Russian rocket hit a school in eastern Ukraine, killing one person, Donetsk region governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said.</p>
<p>Russian forces also shelled nine towns and villages in the northern Sumy region, which borders Russia, killing a young woman and wounding three other people, local governor Dmytro Zhyvytsky reported on Telegram.</p>
<p>He said the casualties all lived in the same house, which suffered a direct artillery hit.</p>
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