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• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has sacked the head of Ukraine's domestic security service (SBU) and the head state prosecutor, citing hundreds of cases of alleged treason and collaboration with Russia. READ MORE BELOW

• EU foreign ministers meet to discuss imposing more sanctions on Russia, including the possibility of banning gold purchases from the country. 

• The Russian army said its long-range air-based missiles had destroyed a depot in an industrial zone of Odesa, southern Ukraine, that stored Harpoon anti-ship missiles delivered by NATO countries.

• Russia is reinforcing its defensive positions across the areas it occupies in southern Ukraine, the UK Defense Ministry said. 

• Ukrainian emergency services said Monday that Russian shelling had destroyed a building, killing six people in the town of Toretsk in the eastern region of Donetsk. "Early in the morning, the town of Toretsk was shelled. A two-story building with people inside was destroyed," the emergency services said in a statement on social media.

• Russian-backed separatists said Ukraine had hit the town of Alchevsk, east of Sloviansk, with six U.S.-made HIMARS rockets on Saturday. The self-styled Luhansk People's Republic said the strikes had killed two civilians.

• Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who staged a protest against the attack on Ukraine on live state television in March, was briefly detained in Moscow on Sunday, posts on her social media channels showed.

• Dozens of relatives and local residents on Sunday attended the funeral of 4-year-old Liza Dmytrieva, one of 24 people killed in a Russian missile strike in the city of Vinnytsia last week. Pictures of Dmytrieva and her mother, who was also injured in the attack, were shared around the world last week. 

• Swedish fashion retailer H&M says it has decided to wind down operations in Russia, after suspending all sales there in March."After careful consideration, we see it as impossible given the current situation to continue our business in Russia," H&M Group CEO Helena Helmersson said in a statement.

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Zelenskyy sacks key personnel

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has sacked the head of Ukraine's domestic security service and the head state prosecutor, citing hundreds of cases of alleged treason and collaboration with Russia. 

Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova and SBU chief Ivan Bakanov were relieved of their duties after at least 60 officials were convicted of helping Russian or Russian-backed forces in Eastern Ukraine. Officials in Kyiv said more that 600 cases of treason or aiding the enemy were being investigated. 

The scale of the alleged collusion raised "very serious questions" about the leadership of the security agencies, Zelenskyy said. "Each such question will be answered," he declared. 

Fashion retailer to quit Russia

Swedish fashion retailer H&M said on Monday it had decided to wind down operations in Russia, after pausing all sales there in March following Moscow's attack on Ukraine.

Russia was H&M's sixth biggest market and the company was increasing its store count there, prior to March. 

"After careful consideration, we see it as impossible given the current situation to continue our business in Russia," H&M Group CEO Helena Helmersson said in a statement.

"We are deeply saddened about the impact this will have on our colleagues and very grateful for all their hard work and dedication," she added.

H&M, which has about 6,000 employees in Russia and has operated in the country since 2009, said it would reopen stores in Russia "for a limited period of time to sell remaining inventory" as part of the exit process. 

It said the entire wind-down was expected to cost the group $192 million.

"The full amount will be included as one-time costs in the results for the third quarter 2022," the company said, preparing traders and analysts for the financial impact next quarter.