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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has fired the commander of the country's air force in the wake of a deadly F-16 crash.
The order to dismiss Lt. Gen. Mykola Oleshchuk was published on the presidential website on Friday, four days after an F-16 warplane that Ukraine received from its Western partners crashed during a Russian bombardment and killed the pilot.
"We need to protect people. Protect personnel. Take care of all our soldiers," Zelenskyy said in an address minutes after the order was published. He said Ukraine needs to strengthen its army on the command level.
It comes as at least seven people, including a 14-year-old girl, were killed and dozens more were injured in a reported Russian glide bomb attack on a 12-storey apartment block and playground in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, according to Ukrainian officials.
Zelensky reposted a video of the aftermath of the strike, using the incident to reiterate his calls for Kyiv ’s Western allies to allow Ukraine to strike deeper into Russian territory.
Russia's ministry of defence said that it had captured the town of Pivnichne, also in Ukraine's Donetsk region.
Russian forces have been driving deeper into the partly occupied eastern region, the total capture of which is one of the Kremlin's primary ambitions.
Russia's army is closing in on Pokrovsk, a critical logistics hub for the Ukrainian defence in the area.
At the same time, Ukraine has sent its forces into Russia's Kursk region in recent weeks in the largest incursion on to Russian soil since the Second World War. The move is partly an effort to force Russia to draw troops away from the Donetsk front.
Five people were killed by Russian shelling in the town of Chasiv Yar on Saturday as Moscow's troops continue their push on Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.
The attack hit a high-rise building and a private home, said regional governor Vadym Filaskhin, who said the victims were men aged between 24 and 38.
He urged the last remaining residents to leave the frontline town, which had a pre-war population of 12,000.
"Normal life has been impossible in Chasiv Yar for more than two years," Mr Filaskhin wrote on social media. "Do not become a Russian target - evacuate."
Five people were killed and 46 injured in Ukrainian attack on the southwestern Russian city of Belgorod late on Friday, the local governor said.
Vyacheslav Gladkov also said 37 people, including seven children, were taken to hospital.
Video from a car dashboard, posted on social media and purporting to demonstrate the attack, showed another car being blown up while moving on the road. Seconds later an explosion is seen on the other side of the road.
Ukraine has staged frequent attacks on Belgorod and other Russian border regions in recent months.
Ukraine and Russia say they do not deliberately target civilians in the war that began when Russia sent thousands of troops into its smaller neighbour in February 2022. Moscow has called the invasion a "special military operation".
Ukraine’s top diplomat has called on the European Union to pressure the US into allowing them to use Western long-range missiles to strike deeper into Russian territory . The request comes ahead of crunch talks between senior Kyiv and Washington officials later this week.
Dmytro Kuleba, the Ukrainian foreign minister, speaking in Brussels on Thursday, where he is attending an informal meeting of the bloc’s 27 foreign ministers, urged the EU to “play a role in persuading the US” to green-light the deeper strikes .
Ukraine needs “support to finally lift restrictions on long-range strikes on all legitimate military targets in Russia”, Mr Kuleba told Politico . “Of course this decision lies mainly with the United States and the UK, but France is also a party and part of the EU.”
My colleague Tom Watling reports:
Let us strike deep inside Russia where it will hurt them, Ukraine pleads
Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk region is legitimate and covered by Kyiv's right to self-defence, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told German weekly Welt am Sonntag in his first reaction to the advance into Russian territory.
"Ukraine has a right to defend itself. And according to international law, this right does not stop at the border," Stoltenberg told the paper, adding that NATO had not been informed about Ukraine's plans beforehand and did not play a role in them.
The NATO chief said Ukraine was running a risk with the advance onto Russian territory but that it was up to Kyiv how to conduct its military campaign.
"(Ukrainian) President (Volodymyr) Zelenskiy has made clear that the operation aims to create a buffer zone to prevent further Russian attacks from across the border," he said.
"Like all military operations, this comes with risks. But it is Ukraine's decision how to defend itself."
Kyiv launched a major cross-border incursion into the Kursk region on Aug. 6, while Moscow's troops keep pressing towards the strategic hub of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine.
The incursion was also discussed at a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine-Council on Wednesday that was requested by Kyiv amid Moscow's biggest wave of air attacks on its neighbour.
The council, grouping members of the Western military alliance and Ukraine, was established last year to enable closer coordination between the alliance and Kyiv.
Russia has called the Kursk operation a "major provocation" and said it would retaliate.
Russia jails journalist for eight years over Ukraine war reporting
A Russian journalist has been sentenced to eight years in prison after his newspaper reported on Russia ’s attacks on civilians in Ukraine , a human rights group said.
Prosecutors convicted Sergei Mikhailov in a court in the Siberian city of Gorno-Altaysk for “spreading false information” about the Russian army that was motivated by “political hatred”, the Net Freedoms Project said.
The 48-year-old journalist and editor at local newspaper Listok, or Leaflet, was arrested in 2022 near Moscow for posting on the publication’s Telegram channel and website about the horrors in the Ukrainian cities of Bucha and Mariupol.
Rachel Hagan reports:
Russian forces have gained control of the Kirove settlement, known in Ukraine as Verezamske, in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, the defence ministry said on Saturday.
Donetsk is one of four Ukrainian regions which Russia says it has annexed even though it does not fully control all of them, a territorial claim which Kyiv and the West have rejected as illegal and one which Ukraine has vowed to reverse by force.
Russia has been making incremental gains in the region at a time when Ukrainian troops seek to advance in Russia's Kursk region after a surprise cross-border attack that began on 6 August.
Separately, the defence ministry said in a bulletin about developments in Russia's Kursk region that its forces had repelled Ukrainian attacks there, including towards settlements of Korenevo and Malaya Loknya.
Russian officials have said Kyiv's attack on the Kursk region will fail to divert Russian forces away from the east of Ukraine where they are still advancing.
The officials also say Ukraine's foray into Russian territory will ensnare thousands of its troops in a new front which has little strategic or tactical importance.
Ukrainian residential building burns after Russian attack on Kharkiv kills seven
Ukrainian air defences shot down 24 out of 52 drones launched by Russia during overnight attacks on eight regions across Ukraine, the air force said on Saturday.
It said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app that 25 Shahed drones had fallen on their own and three others had flown towards Russia and Belarus. There were no reports of anybody being hurt in the attacks or of any major damage being caused.
Ukraine uses electronic warfare as well as mobile hunting groups and aircraft defences to repel frequent Russian drone and missile strikes.
Air alerts sounded several times during the overnight drone attacks, with many people rushing to shelters in the middle of the night.
In the capital Kyiv, where alerts lasted for about four hours, it was the fourth drone attack this week, officials said. All drones targeting the city were downed and no major damage was reported, Kyiv city officials said.
Ukrainian air defences also shot down Russian drones in the Poltava, Cherkasy, Kyrovohrad and Dnipropetrovsk regions in central Ukraine, in the Chernihiv and Sumy regions in the north and the Mykolayiv region in the south.
Regional officials in the Cherkasy region said the drones' debris had damaged several private houses.
The Russian forces also launched five missiles during the attack, the Ukrainian air force said, but gave no other details.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky fired the commander of the country's air force on Friday, four days after an F-16 warplane that Ukraine received from its Western partners crashed during a Russian bombardment and killed the pilot.
The order to dismiss Lt. Gen. Mykola Oleshchuk was published on the presidential website.
Lt. Gen. Anatolii Kryvonozhko was appointed acting air force commander, the army's general staff said.
The dismissal came on the same day that Oleshchuk directed scathing criticism at a lawmaker who is deputy head of the Ukrainian parliament's defense committee for her claims that the F-16 was downed by a Patriot air-defense system. Ukraine has received an unspecified number of the U.S.-made systems.
Mariana Bezuhla cited unnamed sources for her claim and demanded punishment for those responsible for the error.
Oleshchuk accused Bezuhla of defaming the air force and discrediting U.S. arms manufacturers and said that he hoped she would face legal consequences for her claims.
"The truth will win," Bezuhla posted on X shortly after the dismissal order was published.
The air force did not directly deny that the F-16 was hit by a Patriot missile.
US experts have joined the Ukrainian investigation into the crash, the air force said.
Ukraine calls for Putin’s arrest when he visits Mongolia next week
Ukraine urged Mongolia to arrest Russian president Vladimir Putin for alleged war crimes when he visited the country on 3 September.
The International Criminal Court ( ICC ) issued an arrest warrant in March last year accusing Mr Putin of the war crime of unlawfully deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine to Russia during its invasion of Ukraine . The Kremlin responded saying it was “not worried”.
“The Ukrainian side hopes that the government of Mongolia is aware of the fact that Vladimir Putin is a war criminal,” the Ukrainian foreign ministry said on Telegram.
Shahana Yasmin reports:
Five people were killed and 46 injured in a Ukrainian attack on the southwestern Russian city of Belgorod late on Friday, the local governor said, the latest in a series of strikes by Ukraine on the city in recent months.
Vyacheslav Gladkov said 37 of the injured, including seven children, were taken to hospitals in the city, which lies 40 km (25 miles) north of the border with Ukraine.
Video filmed from inside a vehicle, posted on social media and purporting to show the attack, showed a car being blown up while moving along a road. Seconds later another explosion is seen metres away. Reuters could not immediately verify the authenticity of the video.
Russia's Foreign Ministry condemned the attack.
"Once again we call on all responsible governments and relevant international structures to strongly condemn this brutal terrorist attack and publicly distance themselves from the Kyiv regime and its Western curators who commit such crimes," it said on Saturday.
The ministry added that Russia's "special military operation" will continue until it reaches all the goals including Ukraine's "demilitarisation and de-nazification".
Russia's Investigation Committee said on its Telegram channel that it had initiated a criminal case into the attack.
Authorities also reported that a woman was injured on Saturday during Ukrainian shelling of the border town of Shebekino in the Belgorod region.
Ukraine has staged frequent attacks on Belgorod and other Russian border regions in recent months, with the city the focal point of the attacks.
Ukraine and Russia say they do not deliberately target civilians in the war that began when Russia sent thousands of troops into its smaller neighbour in February 2022.
With men at the front lines, women watch over Ukraine's night sky for Russian drones
Ukraine says US experts are helping figure out why a Ukrainian F-16 crashed in the war with Russia
Ukraine’s top diplomat has called on the European Union to pressure the US into allowing them to use Western long-range missiles to strike deeper into Russian territory .
The request comes ahead of crunch talks between senior Kyiv and Washington officials later this week.
Child among dead as Russian glide bomb strikes playground in Kharkiv
What is Ukraine really up to with its audacious Kursk land grab?
One month on from President Zelensky’s Russian incursion began, The Independent ’s Mary Dejevsky asks whether it is a strategic game-changer as a powerful bargaining chip – or simply a defensive move to prevent a direct march on Kyiv.
Ukraine has called on Mongolia to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of his visit next Tuesday.
This will be the Russian president’s first visit to an International Criminal Court (ICC) member state since a warrant was issued for his arrest for war crimes.
An ICC spokesperson told the BBC that Mongolian officials “have the obligation” to abide by ICC regulations, but it did not mean that an arrest had to take place.
“We have an excellent rapport with our partners from Mongolia,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow.
“Of course, all aspects of the president’s visit have been carefully prepared.”
Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region is legitimate and covered by Kyiv’s right to self-defence, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told German weekly Welt am Sonntag.
“Ukraine has a right to defend itself. And according to international law, this right does not stop at the border,” Stoltenberg told the paper, adding that NATO had not been informed about Ukraine’s plans beforehand and did not play a role in them.
Stoltenberg added that it was up to Kyiv how they planned to conduct their military campaign.
“(Ukrainian) President (Volodymyr) Zelenskiy has made clear that the operation aims to create a buffer zone to prevent further Russian attacks from across the border,” he said.
“Like all military operations, this comes with risks. But it is Ukraine’s decision how to defend itself.”
It was reported that at least seven people, including a 14-year-old girl were killed and 47 injured after Russia reportedly fired a glide bomb at an apartment block in northeast Ukraine.
Below, we have some of the latest photos from that attack.
The death toll from a Russian strike on the northeast Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has risen to seven.
At least 77 people were also wounded, local authorities said.Regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said on Telegram that about 20 of the injured were in severe condition.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky added that a 14-year-old girl was among the dead.
In the wake of the Kharkiv strike, Mr Zelensky renewed a call on Western allies to allow Ukraine to use long-range Western weapons to attack Russian military air bases.
Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed the chief of Ukraine ’s air force days after an F-16 pilot was killed defending against a large-scale Russian attack.In the first known Ukrainian loss of the US-made fighter jets , Lieutenant Colonel Oleksiy Mes was killed in an aerial battle on Monday, as Moscow launched a barrage of drones and missiles at Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.Air force commander Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk had angrily rejected claims by Ukrainian MP Mariana Bezuhla, who cited unnamed sources, that the jet had been downed in “friendly fire” by a US Patriot missile.Hours after Mr Oleschuk’s denunciation of Ms Bezuhla, the Ukrainian president announced that he had dismissed the air force commander from his post.
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Ukraine says it advances in kursk region, urges allies help defend air space.
Ukraine‘s armed forces commander Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi has said his troops have advanced up to 2 km (1.2 miles) in Russia’s Kursk region in the past day, pressing on with the cross-border incursion it started more than three weeks ago.
Syrskyi also said Russian troops had failed in their latest bid to pierce Ukrainian defences in the Pokrovsk area of eastern Ukraine.
Kyiv launched its surprise operation into Kursk in western Russia on 6 August. It has claimed to control about 100 settlements and said it reached up to 35 km (22 miles) deep into the region, but later advances appeared to have stalled.
Syrskyi said on Friday his troops had moved forward again with a renewed effort, gaining 5 square km of Russian territory in the past 24 hours.
President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was briefed by Syrskyi via video link, said on Telegram the Ukrainian military had taken more prisoners.
Earlier, we reported that at least five people were killed and 47 injured after Russia reportedly fired a glide bomb at an apartment block in northeast Ukraine.
Eu to train kyiv's forces close to ukraine but not inside country, borrell says.
European Union defence ministers have agreed the bloc’s training of Ukrainian forces should take place as close as possible to the war-torn country but not on Ukrainian territory, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Friday.
Speaking after a meeting of the ministers in Brussels, Borrell also said they had agreed the EU’s training mission should aim to train 75,000 Ukrainian troops by the end of the year - having trained 60,000 up until now.
An advisor to the Ukrainian president’s office has called out Kyiv’s Western allies for not providing more support to counter Russia’s “genocidal type of war” after Moscow killed at least five people and injured 47 more in a day strike on a playground.
Mykhailo Podolyak, writing on X, formerly Twitter, said that Russia was trying “to test the world to see how long it is prepared to look blankly at unconditional and premeditated war crimes against civilians”.
Ukraine has urged Mongolia to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin, due there on 3 September, on an International Criminal Court warrant.
“We call on the Mongolian authorities to comply with the mandatory international arrest warrant and transfer Putin to the International Criminal Court in the Hague,” the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on Telegram.
The casualty toll from a Russian strike on the northeast Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has risen to five dead and forty wounded, the local governor has said.
Oleh Syniehubov added on the Telegram messenger app that 20 of the wounded were in “serious or extremely serious condition”.
Zelensky calls for west to abandon red lines after fatal kharkiv strike.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has called for Kyiv’s Western allies to take “strong decisions” and permit them to fire deeper into Russia.
He issued the plea after a glide bomb destroyed a multi storey block of flats in the northeast city of Kharkiv earlier today, killing at least three people.
Ukraine maintains that it would be able to reduce the impact of glide bombs if it could strike the bases from where the jets that fire the bombs take off, which is currently out of range of Kyiv’s capabilities.
Ukraine’s Western allies, particularly the US, are currently blocking Kyiv from using their long-range missiles at full range.
At least four people have been killed and 28 wounded in a daytime strike on a 12-storey apartment block in Kharkiv.
Earlier, we reported that several people had been killed in a glide bomb attack in Ukraine’s northeast region.
A Russian guided bomb attack on Ukraine‘s northeastern city of Kharkiv hit a residential building and a high-rise, killing one child and injuring two other people, the mayor said.
“Occupiers killed a child right on the playground. At least three other people in the area were injured,” Ihor Terekhov said on Telegram.
Two other people were killed in a 12-storey apartment block that caught fire as a result of the strike, he added.
Kyiv residents sing city’s anthem while sheltering in subway during rocket attack
Update: another body found in sumy; death toll rises to 2.
The death toll from a Russian drone attack in Sumy has increased to two, local officials have revealed.
One injured person died later in hospital, regional prosecutors said on Telegram, and the body of another victim was retrieved from the rubble.
Pokrovsk: Zelensky’s key city Russia is desperate to take next
The commander of Ukraine‘s air force said on Friday that it had shared with U.S. partners a preliminary report about an F-16 jet crash that took place on Monday.
Mykola Oleshchuk said on Telegram that the United States, where the F-16 is manufactured, was assisting the investigation.
The Ukrainian military said on Thursday that the F-16 crashed and its pilot died while approaching a target during a Russian air strike.
A Russian attack overnight damaged a factory in Ukraine‘s northeastern city of Sumy, killing a 48-year-old woman and injuring at least eight people, local authorities said on Friday.
The airstrike caused a fire, prompting regional authorities to ask residents to stay inside and close the windows.
Ukraine‘s Prosecutor General’s office said that the factory manufactured packaging for baby food, juices and household products.
Earlier, we reported that that nine people had been injured un Sumy.
Russia's attack injures at least 9 in ukraine's sumy, local authorities say.
Russian overnight attacks damaged an enterprise in Sumy region, injuring at least 9 people, and hit an industrial facility in Poltava region, local authorities said on Friday.
An airstrike on the northeastern city of Sumy caused a fire, prompting regional authorities to ask residents to stay inside and close the windows.
A drone attack hit an industrial facility in Poltava without causing any casualties, regional governor Filip Pronin said.
The Ukrainian air force said it shot down 12 out of 18 Russia-launched drones overnight over five Ukrainian regions. Four more drones fell over the Ukrainian territory.
Russia also used an Iskander-M missile during the attack, the air force added.
Former Russian defense official detained suspected of fraud in latest high-profile military arrest
Footate shows drones hitting russian city of kaluga, f-16 pilot killed in ukraine by friendly fire, claims official.
The Ukrainian pilot killed when his F-16 fighter jet crashed earlier this week was shot down by friendly fire from a US-supplied Patriot anti-aircraft missile system, a Kyiv official has claimed.
Oleksiy “Moonfish” Mes was killed on Monday defending against one of the largest Russian aerial attacks on Ukraine since the war began. Official reports said the pilot crashed the jet. It had only just arrived in Ukraine after Kyiv called for them for years.
Mary Bezhula, an MP who was briefed on the incident, wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that Moonfish had been shot down by Patriot fire.
“War is war, such episodes are possible,” she wrote. “But the culture of lies in the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as in other higher military headquarters, leads to the fact that the system of managing military decisions does not improve on the basis of truthful, consistently collected analytics, but deteriorates and even collapses, as is happening in the Pokrovsky direction.”
You can read her full statement below, though it will need to be translated. Moonfish can be seen in the right of her picture, sitting next to another pilot whose death was also investigated.
Russian forces are continuing to advance towards the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, the latest maps have suggested.
DeepState, a Ukrainian group with close ties to the military and which tracks developments on the frontline, said the situation is “difficult and out of control”.
They reported that Russian forces are on the eastern outskirts of the town of Selydove, only around 10 miles from Pokrovsk.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to visit China for its forthcoming Belt and Road summit in October.
The upcoming trip, which was reported by Bloomberg, would be his first diplomatic trip abroad since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The trip will present an opportunity for Putin to play the statesman on the world stage, and flaunt his defiance of the International Criminal Court arrest warrant issued for war crimes in Ukraine.
Yet it also exposes the stark limitations of Putin's global power, and his new dependence on China's autocratic leader, Xi Jinping.
"The longer the war between Russia and Ukraine drags on, the more Moscow's economic and diplomatic dependence on Beijing will grow," Ali Wyne, an analyst with the Eurasia Group, told Insider.
Since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Putin has cut an isolated figure and is rarely seen in public.
He lives in fear of assassination and betrayal, reports claim, and according to Bloomberg's sources, he believes that China is one of few countries that can guarantee his security.
He's made only one foreign trip since the Ukraine invasion, to the devastated occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol. He last visited China in February 2022.
Last week, Putin had to attend the BRICS summit in South Africa remotely in order to spare the hosts the dilemma of deciding whether to act on the ICC warrant and arrest him (China is not a signatory of the ICC's Rome Statute). Putin is also skipping the G20 summit in India.
Xi has remained a steadfast ally, providing Russia with vital economic and diplomatic backing amid the Ukraine war, punishing international sanctions, and the internal turmoil it has provoked in Russia.
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Last week, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group rebellion against the Kremlin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, died in a plane explosion that Western officials believe was likely ordered by Putin as the Russian leader seeks to regain the unchallenged authority he once wielded.
But Xi has his own agenda.
Analysts have told Insider that China is playing a balancing act and is backing Russia as part of a ploy to damage the power of the US, Ukraine's main international backer and Beijing's key global rival.
Yet Xi is also keen not to alienate Ukraine's Western European allies, whose good graces he depends on to maintain vital trade links for China's ailing economy.
He has driven a hard bargain with Russia as a condition for his support, scolding the Russian leader for menacing the West with nuclear weapons and refusing to provide Russia with the military equipment it urgently needs to bolster its ill-equipped forces.
Yet such is Putin's dependence on Xi, he is in no position to hit back. The imbalance in the relationship is brought into relief by the fact that the Russian leader is dependent on Xi to break his international isolation and project his authority in person on the world stage.
"The sanctions have exacerbated the already asymmetrical relationship between Russia and China," Maria Shagina, a senior research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, told The Financial Times in March. "It's hard to hide the fact that Russia is now a junior partner."
In recent weeks, some nations in the so-called Global South have shown receptiveness to Ukraine's plans to bring an end to the conflict.
And as he seeks to rally them to Russia's cause, Putin may have to get used to the new unfamiliar role of playing second fiddle to China's leader.
"With the West having largely decoupled from it, and with India looking to reduce energy and arms ties with it, Russia recognizes that strengthening its relationship with China—both bilaterally and through groupings such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the expanded BRICS, and the G20—is essential to contesting the Western narrative that Moscow is isolated on the world stage," said Wyne.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has dismissed the country's air force commander Mykola Oleshchuk after claims an F-16 pilot was killed by friendly fire. Six people have died, including a 14-year-old girl on a playground, in a Russian guided bomb attack on Kharkiv, officials say.
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We'll be back with more updates and analysis soon, but before we go, here's a recap of the key developments that took place today:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed the country's air force commander Mykola Oleshchuk.
The sacking was announced on Friday in a presidential decree.
There was no immediate explanation from Mr Zelenskyy for his decision but it comes days after a Ukrainian pilot was killed when his F-16 jet crashed on Monday.
Lieutenant Colonel Oleksiy Mes was killed while defending Ukraine's skies in a Western-donated warplane.
Ukrainian MP Mariana Bezuhla has claimed the jet was shot down by the country's own anti-aircraft missile system.
In response to Ms Bezuhla before his sacking, Lieutenant General Oleshchuk said her comments were a "tool to discredit the top military leadership".
"Mariana, the time will come when you will apologise to the entire army for what you have done, I hope in court!", he added.
Six people are now known to have died following the Russian guided bomb attack on Kharkiv, local authorities have said.
Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov said one child was killed in a playground and three people were killed in a 12-storey apartment block that caught fire as a result of the strike.
The Ukrainian authorities did not give the circumstances in which the two other people died in the strikes, which hit four areas of the city.
As well as those people who died, at least 55 others were injured, officials said.
About 20 of the injured were in severe condition, according to regional governor Oleh Syniehubov.
Top Ukrainian officials have begun a visit to Washington, the Ukrainian presidential office has said.
The delegation includes economy minister Yulia Svyrydenko and defence minister Rustem Umerov.
"We are working in Washington... We are grateful to our partners for their support," the president's chief of staff Andriy Yermak said on Telegram .
The visit comes amid Volodymyr Zelenskyy's renewed a call on Western allies to allow Ukraine to use long-range Western weapons to attack Russian military air bases.
Kyiv says that the most effective way to counter Russian strikes is to target Russian planes, not the bombs themselves.
The US ambassador to Ukraine has called on Russia to be "held accountable for these war crimes" in Kharkiv.
In a statement on X, Bridget A Brink said "Russia struck an apartment building in Kharkiv with a guided aerial bomb, killing several and injuring many, including children".
Kharkiv has been the focus of heavy Russian bombing throughout the war, although there had been a drop in intensity in recent weeks, possibly related to a surprise invasion launched by Ukrainian forces into Russia's Kursk region.
Ukrainian authorities said today's attack involved five aerial guided bombs launched from planes in Russia's Belgorod region, also known as "glide bombs" which are fitted with a navigation system taking them to their targets.
The footage below shows the aftermath of the attack in Kharkiv.
The EU has rebuffed a request from Kyiv for the bloc to train Ukrainian soldiers inside the war-torn country, but will train them as close as possible to Ukrainian territory, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said.
The EU has trained some 60,000 Ukrainian soldiers inside the economic union's borders since Russia's invasion of the country and will aim to train 15,000 more by the end of the year, Mr Borrell said.
Kyiv has asked the EU to consider some training inside Ukraine, arguing this would be faster, more cost-effective, and logistically easier than inside the EU.
But multiple EU countries are reluctant to deploy troops inside Ukraine, expressing concerns about their safety and questioning whether such a move would divert Ukrainian forces from their core mission, in order to protect trainers.
Mr Borrell told reporters: "Some member states were ready, others reluctant.
"Finally, we decided that the training will be as close as possible to Ukraine, but not in Ukrainian territory."
Ukraine has urged Mongolia to arrest Vladimir Putin on an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant when he visits next week.
The court issued an arrest warrant in March of last year against Mr Putin, accusing him of the war crime of illegally deporting hundreds of children from Ukraine.
The Kremlin has dismissed the accusation, saying it is politically motivated.
The warrant obliges the court's 124 member states, including Mongolia, to arrest Mr Putin and transfer him to The Hague for trial if he sets foot on their territory.
Now, the Ukrainian foreign ministry has called on the ICC to arrest the Russian leader when he visits Mongolia on 3 September.
"We call on the Mongolian authorities to comply with the mandatory international arrest warrant and transfer Putin to the International Criminal Court in the Hague," the ministry said on Telegram.
Asked earlier today whether Moscow was concerned that Mongolia was a member of the ICC, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters: "No, no worries about this. We have a great dialogue with our friends from Mongolia."
Asked whether there had been discussions with Mongolian authorities about the ICC warrant, Mr Peskov added: "Obviously the visit, all of the aspects of the visit have been thoroughly discussed."
Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he held a meeting with the top military commanders of Ukraine this afternoon.
The president said that three key issues were discussed, starting with the situation on the frontlines.
Kursk invasion
Ukraine's top commander says Kyiv's forces have advanced up to 2km in their invasion of Russia's Kursk region.
Oleksandr Syrskyi briefed Mr Zelenskyy via video link and said Ukrainian forces took control of 5sq km of Russian territory.
Discussions were also had over the next set of reinforcements in the area, which Mr Zelenskyy said was "extremely important for strengthening our positions".
General Syrskyi also briefed the president on the ongoing fighting near Pokrovsk, which Ukraine is trying desperately to hold in the face of advancing Russian troops.
Preparing for new academic year
The meeting also covered how Ukraine will deal with the new academic year for schoolchildren, which starts next week.
Mr Zelenskyy heard reports from Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, internal affairs minister Ihor Klymenko and education and science minister Oksen Lisovyi.
The president said discussions covered security issues, as well as the construction of bomb shelters.
Energy problems
The third key issue addressed was the current state of Ukraine's energy grid following a week of heavy Russian strikes.
Mr Zelenskyy heard analysis of energy issues, including the potential construction of protective structures around key energy infrastructure.
Images are emerging of the aftermath of today's attack on Kharkiv.
Russia denies deliberately targeting civilians, but thousands have been killed and wounded in its strikes during its invasion.
The scenes come as Volodymyr Zelenskyy renews a call on Western allies to allow long-range attacks on Russian military air bases after the attack.
The number of people killed in a Russian strike on Kharkiv has risen to five.
Meanwhile, 40 people have been injured after the Russian missile hit a residential building and playground, according to the regional governor Oleh Syniehubov.
Earlier, we reported that a 14-year-old girl was among the dead.
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