What began as spontaneous anger over Mykhailo Fedorov’s dismissal has swelled into public outrage over Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s management of the military, with protesters demanding radical changes at the top command**.**
Zelenskyy is now scrambling to contain a bitter stand-off between the reform‑minded, tech-saavy former defence boss, widely supported by the military and civil society, and the army chief at the heart of Ukraine’s war effort.
Reshuffle gone wrong
On Sunday 12 July Zelenskyy announced a sweeping cabinet reshuffle. With nationwide elections suspended under martial law amid Moscow’s full‑scale war, a cabinet revamp is his only viable instrument for political renewal.
Rumours of a possible resignation of the prime minister had been circulating for weeks, but Euronews sources initially expected the shake‑up to take place in late August or early autumn. And yet, five days before the first anniversary of Yulia Svyrydenko’s government, she was dismissed from the job.
