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UKRAINE DEFENSE SHAKEUP LIVE | FEDOROV SACKED! Zelenskyy Fires Tech Whiz Defense Minister Amid War
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57:05Now PlayingUKRAINE DEFENSE SHAKEUP LIVE | FEDOROV SACKED! Zelenskyy Fires Tech Whiz Defense Minister Amid War
KYIV — In a stunning political development that has plunged Ukraine’s wartime leadership into deep uncertainty, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has unexpectedly dismissed 35-year-old Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov after just six months in office, triggering widespread public outrage and spontaneous protests across Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro, and Odesa. The sacking of the tech-reformist minister—highly regarded for modernizing Ukraine's drone warfare, blocking Russian military access to Starlink, and launching aggressive anti-corruption audits that uncovered over UAH 300 billion in wasteful military spending—follows a series of systemic clashes with old-school military brass, most notably Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi, over mobilization tactics, procurement reforms, and a controversial $7,000 private recruitment bounty program. Fedorov's departure, which coincided with the resignation of Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko and prompted the resignation of Air Force Deputy Commander Pavlo Yelizarov in protest, has raised critical questions from parliament and international allies regarding the stability of Ukraine's defense apparatus and the future of its military reforms as frontlines in the Donbas face intense Russian pressure.
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