For a president in wartime, the only political threat greater than a popular general could well be a popular general who has been unceremoniously fired.
That appears to be a risk Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, is ready to take, having failed to persuade Gen Valerii Zaluzhnyi to resign as commander in chief of the Ukrainian armed forces. While some Ukrainian politicians urged a reconciliation between the two men and said that was still possible, rumours of the general’s imminent dismissal continued to circulate in Kyiv on Wednesday.
