Khmara Takes the Defense Ministry – as Fedorov Takes Aim at 'the System'
The Verkhovna Rada has appointed a new defense minister. Fedorov did not return to the post. Instead, he recorded a video address criticizing the system and raising the idea of elections – an idea critics call unworkable in wartime.
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