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Ukraine’s Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has been dismissed and is expected to be replaced by Ihor Klymenko.

Mykhailo Fedorov was a reformer who is credited with successes like directing money to purchase of medium and long range drones that are now being used very effectively, audits uncovering billions of dollars worth of overspending, moving some procurement to open tender, gamification of drone warfare with more points allotted to outcomes Ukraine prefers to incentivize (ex. killing enemy soldiers) and successfully lobbying Musk to shut down Starlink for Russia. However, he has had conflicts with the heads of the military such as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi; critics say that without a military background he is not qualified to plan a war, and that he is just good at attaching his name to pre-existing efforts that turned out well.

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago

I agree Zelenskyy has handled this very well, but in this case it seems like he is making a HUGE mistake, that he has given no good reason for.
Trusting the old Russian school general, over the most successful defense minister by far they've had this entire war is INSANE!!
Fedorov has been behind ALL the successful strategies since February, that have turned the war around completely, so Ukraine now is dominating Russia.
When I write ALL, I mean literally ALL.

He had been defense minister for mere days when he succeeded in doing what others before him hadn't achieved in years. Turning off starlink for the Russians, because he figured out how they could be detected to be Russian. Mind you Russia used fake Ukrainian identities to spoof the system.
He has made several tactics and strategies that are described as GENIUS! Who do you imagine can replace him and continue the victory streak Ukraine has experienced for the past 6 months?

Zelenskyy has been great, but Fedorov has taken it to a whole other level. Not the idiot general that refuse to modernize.