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Luke Harding in Dnipro

Zelenskyy under growing pressure to reinstate sacked defence minister

Four men standing in a row in a plush room with an ornante wooden floor. Two of the men, second from left and on the far right, are wearing combat fatigues
Volodymyr Zelenskyy with (from left) acting defence minister Yevhenii Khmara, Oleksandr Syrskyi and newly appointed commander-in-chief Mykhailo Drapatyi. Photograph: Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Reuters

Volodymyr Zelenskyy was under growing pressure to reinstate his sacked defence minister on Wednesday, after campaigners said they would continue indefinite nationwide protests until Mykhailo Fedorov got his job back.

On Tuesday, Zelenskyy bowed to public demands by firing Ukraine’s commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi. He appointed Mykhailo Drapatyi as the new head of the country’s armed forces, as part of a radical reshuffle of the top military command.

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