Just days after sacking popular defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov, the Ukrainian president decided to appease critics by letting the commander-in-chief go too.
A heavy wave of Russian ballistic missile and drone strikes has left people dead across Ukraine, prompting renewed appeals from Kyiv for urgent defensive interceptor supplies.
“Bring Fedorov back!” Central Kyiv witnessed more than a thousand people gather, singing the Ukrainian national anthem, waving Ukrainian and EU flags, and chanting “shame.”
