Protests are continuing in Ukraine over the decision by President Zelensky to fire Mykhailo Federov, his popular (too popular?) and effective defense minister, whose reshaping of the way that Ukraine was fighting Russia — a reshaping that predated his brief (six-month) tenure at the ministry of defense — had delivered remarkable results.
It will be a long time, if ever, before we know the full explanation for Federov’s dismissal, but a good part of it can be found in the difference of approach between the new-model war being developed by the 35-year-old Federov and the older version preferred by Ukraine’s military ...
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