On July 15, Ukraine‘s President Volodymyr Zelensky sacked his young defence minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, supposedly as part of a ‘government reshuffle’.
The public reaction was immediate and explosive. Thousands poured on to the streets – among them veterans and serving soldiers on leave. ‘Hands off Fedorov!’ they bellowed.
They demanded that the ambitious 35-year-old, a former adviser to Zelensky, be reinstated, arguing that he had been fighting to modernise a military establishment that refused to move with the times. Fedorov had championed drone warfare while digitising procurement and pushing hard against his nation’s perennial curse of corruption.
Many concluded that his dismissal stemmed from
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