Ukraine’s ousted defense minister calls for wartime elections in bombshell address
Tom Nicholson/Reuters KYIV Reuters — Ukraine’s ousted Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for wartime elections in a bombshell address on Tuesday, arguing the nation faced a crisis of governance, in the biggest internal challenge to President Volodymyr Zelensky since Russia’s invasion.
The youngest minister in Ukraine’s history when he was appointed aged 28 as Ukraine’s digitalization chief, Fedorov spent six years in that post.
Fedorov’s call, delivered in a video address posted on YouTube, is the first such demand by a major Ukrainian political figure since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022.
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