Good morning. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian military, is perhaps the only man in Ukraine who is more popular than its president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Now, after months of speculation about his future and a week-long frenzy over whether Zaluzhnyi (above left) had been asked to step aside, there finally seems to be clarity: Zelenskiy has admitted publicly that he is seeking to replace him, as part of a broad reset. “I have something serious in mind, which is not about a single person but the direction of the country’s leadership,” said Zelenskiy. “I mean a replacement of a series of state leaders, not just in a single sector like the military.”
