Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba resigns

Published: Sep 03, 2024 Duration: 00:03:03 Category: News & Politics

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HE DOES HAVE SOME SUPPORT BUT IT IS DISINTEGRATING AT HIGH LEVELS. >> CHARLIE, THANK YOU AS ALWAYS FOR YOUR REPORTING AND ANALYSIS. >>> TURNING NOW TO THE WAR IN UKRAINE. THE FOREIGN MINISTER SUBMITTED HIS RESIGNATION AHEAD OF AN EXPECTED CABINET RESHUFFLE. IT COMES AS THE LATEST RUSSIAN ATTACK HAS KILLED AT LEAST SEVEN PEOPLE IN UKRAINE'S WESTERN CITY OF LEAVE. YESTERDAY A RUSSIAN MISSILE HIT A UKRAINIAN CITY, KILLING MORE THAN 50 AND INJURING HUNDREDS MORE. LET'S BRING IN REMINISCENT CO WHO WAS IT TRACKING ALL THE DEVELOPMENTS FROM LONDON. HOW SIGNIFICANT IS THE FOREIGN MINISTER'S RESIGNATION? >> THIS IS QUITE SIGNIFICANT FOR THE FOREIGN MINISTER AND PARLIAMENT WILL CONSIDERED -- CONSIDER THE RESIGNATION AT ITS NEXT SESSION. HE HAS BEEN IN THE JOB FOR MORE THAN FOUR YEARS AND HAS BECOME A WELL-KNOWN FACE OF UKRAINIAN DIPLOMACY AS HE HAS TRIED TO RALLY POLITICAL AND MILITARY SUPPORT FOR THE COUNTRY. AND WHILE HIS INTENT TO RESIGN COMES AFTER ONE OF RUSSIA'S BIGGEST STRIKES, YOU REALLY HAVE TO LOOK BACK THROUGH THE POLITICAL LENS TO LAST WEEK AND THAT IS WHEN UKRAINE'S PRESIDENT ALREADY SAID HE WILL DO A MAJOR RESHUFFLE OF HIS CABINET. WE KNOW SEVERAL OTHER OFFICIALS OFFERED THEIR RESIGNATION YESTERDAY INCLUDING TWO DEPUTY PRIME MINISTERS, THE DEPUTY MINISTER AND THE MINISTER OF WAR. IT IS BEING SEEN AS A KIND OF RESET OR REBOOT FOR NEW THINKING AND NEW STRATEGIES IN THE GOVERNMENT. IS RIGHT NOW AS IT STANDS THE WAR IS 2 1/2 YEARS AND WITH NO END IN SIGHT. >> WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THESE LATEST RUSSIAN ATTACKS? >> THEY APPEAR TO BE RETALIATORY. THAT IS THE ASSESSMENT FROM MANY WATCHING IN THE PAST MONTH. IN THIS LATEST ATTACK OVERNIGHT, JUST THIS MORNING A MOTHER AND HER THREE DAUGHTERS AMONG THE SEVEN PEOPLE THAT WERE KILLED WITH DOZENS MORE INJURED. A VIDEO SHOWED THE BODY OF ONE LITTLE GIRL BEING FOUND UNDER THE RUBBLE OF HER HOME. RESIDENTS REPORTED HEARING EXPLOSIONS JUST BEFORE DAWN, AND THIS IS ABOUT 40 MILES FROM THE BORDER WITH THE NATO MEMBER, POLAND. SO THIS IS VERY CLOSE GETTING TO NATO TERRITORY. POLAND DID SAY THAT THEY DID SCRAMBLE JETS TO PROTECT THEIR OWN TERRITORY. AND THAT MAYOR SAID THAT RUSSIA LAUNCHED HYPERSONIC MISSILES AND DRONES AND AGAIN, JUST THE LATEST OF A STRING OF TEXT, MOSCOW'S DEADLIEST TWO MISSILES HITTING A CITY WITH MORE THAN 50 INJURED. RUSSIA HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO DISLODGE UKRAINIAN FORCES IN

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