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Zelensky dismisses Defense Minister Fedorov (kyivindependent.com)

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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 16 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (3 children)

WTF? As the text says:
Fedorov is the brains behind a huge part of the success Ukraine is currently enjoying!
He was key in getting SpaceX to shut down Starlink for the Russians in Ukraine, and he was behind the massive purchasing of drones that is now turning the war to Ukraine's advantage. And the strategy to award successful drone pilots with more drones.

Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi; critics say that without a military background he is not qualified to plan a war

Again WTF he did better than any general in the Ukrainian military has done!
I really really hope Ukraine is doing the right thing, but I suspect not.

Edit:
After reading the entire article, it seems pretty clear that this is an insanely stupid decision. In 6 months Fedorov has been behind no less than 20 successful strategies against Russia. with the above mentioned being only 2 of them!!
All because a general is pissed that Fedorov wants to modernize some of the old post Russian structures, and make them NATO like, in part to prevent corruption!!

Goddammit!? 😬

Edit2:
I don't get the downvotes? If you think I'm wrong watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcDH-tKV_o8

Apparently there are also already protests against it?!

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Zelensky has prosecuted this war better than anyone's wild imagination would have led them to believe. I trust that if he's making a decision, there is sound reasoning behind it. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's not there.

[–] 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.

[+] marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today -8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

No, the Comedian Actor Zelensky, who has explicitly the exact same qualifications to be a world leader as Donald Trump, has not 'prosecuted' this war. He has been an incredible front man for this war, for the competent people that have run this war and resistance against Russia. He is an amazing actor, and has utilized those skills to well market this war to previously unsure NATO countries.

However he has no qualifications or skill to actually lead a war, and he used to admit that. Consistently firing his generals over petty disputes, at best, seems like the shortest possible path to a complete balkanization of Ukraine into its disparate regions as the people with actual power and competency in Ukraine start new rebellions (especially given democracy has been indefinitely paused so the people have had no say in any of this for years now.)

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh so you know of a dispute involved in this change of leadership? Do share with the rest of us please as well as your source as you seem to have inside information that the news media does not.

[–] marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Did... did you forget to click on the link? This is lemmy, it's similar to reddit. The giant text on the top is actually a hyperlink to a whole other website with exactly the information you're requesting. My comment is directly based on the information in the actual article.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Iirc this was related to the corruption charges affecting his government. Hence why the PM is also kicked out after a mere year.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

No that is long over. Fedorov actually wanted to strengthen the purchasing system used withing thew Ukrainian military, exactly to prevent corruption.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 1 points 17 minutes ago

¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world -3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 3 minutes ago) (2 children)

I don't know yet but I also trust Zelenskyy above all, who has solely been instrumental in Ukraine surviving this long and know any of these events get heavily exploited by the Russian genocidists.

So I will give him the benefit of the doubt.

[–] myrmidex@belgae.social 2 points 38 minutes ago* (last edited 37 minutes ago)

Imagine him eyeing someone even better for the job. Russia must be shitting its pants.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

As I wrote "I hope they know what they are doing".
But it certainly doesn't appear so. There is no logic explanation given for why this should be good, except Fedorov doesn't have a military background. Which is UTTER bullshit!.