In a week that’s seen rare wartime demonstrations in Ukraine protesting the ousting of Defence Minister Mykhailo (Misha) Fedorov after six months in a job in which he’s been credited with making a difference on the battlefield and in an anti-corruption drive. But he had reportedly clashed with Ukraine’s commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, over how the war should be waged.
President Zelensky said he had to choose a side for the sake of unity, this coming as part of a wider government reshuffle. The timing is awkward for Ukraine’s war effort, in the middle of its, quote, "40-day influence operation" of relentlessly striking Russian refineries and, in recent days, hitting ships in the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea:
