President Zelensky announces a new commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces following widespread protests triggered by the mid-July dismissal of Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. <\/p>\n
The leadership change at the top of the Armed Forces followed a wave of protests that erupted in mid-July in response to the dismissal of Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. Fedorov claimed that Oleksandr Syrsky was blocking his attempts to reform the defense ministry and imposed demands upon him, with the dispute centering on the future direction of the Ukrainian military.<\/p>\n
According to the Financial Times, the conflict between the army commander-in-chief and the defense minister was one of the reasons for the latter’s resignation on July 14, alongside a government reshuffle by Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko. As defense minister, Fedorov gained significant popularity by implementing innovative ways of waging war against Russia, working to reform the corrupt defense procurement system, and introducing competitive bidding for most orders.<\/p>\n
Syrsky had served as the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army since February 2024, when General Valerii Zaluzhnyi was dismissed from the post and subsequently appointed as Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
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President Zelensky announces a new commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces following widespread protests triggered by the mid-July dismissal of Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. Protests and Conflict Over Defense Reforms The leadership change at the top of the Armed Forces followed a wave of protests that erupted in mid-July in response to the dismissal of Defense […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}