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Volodymyr Zelenskyy has named Maj-Gen Yevhenii Khmara as Ukraine's acting defence minister after sacking popular predecessor Mykhailo Fedorov, triggering mass protests in Kyiv and other cities along with unusual dissent from within his own party.
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