UKRAINIAN President Volodymyr Zelensky sacked another senior official over the weekend, saying that his drive to clean up his government would continue as he aims to build trust with Western allies.

Authorities have dismissed dozens of officials in recent weeks and opened probes as part of a widespread drive against corruption and misdoings.

The European Union has said that addressing the issue is a requirement for Ukraine joining the bloc.

National Guard deputy commander Ruslan Dziuba was the latest official to be sacked under a decree issued by the presidential office.

A reason for his removal was not given.

President Zelensky has been lobbying Western nations to provide Ukraine with fighter jets to help their offence against Russian forces.

Polish President Andrzej Duda told said today that sending F-16 aircrafts would be a “very serious decision” that was “not easy to take.”

It was one of several countries last month that pledged to send more tanks, ammunition and equipment to the country.

Any decision by Nato countries to send the fighter planes to Ukraine must be made jointly.

Russian forces continued to shell Ukrainian cities over the weekend amid a push by Moscow to seize more land in the east of the country.

At least one person was killed and more were wounded this morning by an attack on Nikopol, a city in the south-eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, local officials said.

The shelling damaged four residential buildings, a vocational school and a water treatment facility.

In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, one person was wounded after three Russian S-300 missiles hit infrastructure facilities overnight.

The Russian military said they hit armoured vehicle assembly workshops at the Malyshev machinery plant in the city.