Sacked Ukrainian defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov has used a press conference to identify 11 problems facing Ukraine’s military. One of them, he said, was the constant misleading of the public.
On Thursday (16 July), Ukraine’s parliament approved a new government by a comfortable majority, to be led by executive Serhii Koretskyi. Koretskyi, who previously ran several energy companies, will replace Yulia Svyrydenko after around a year in office.
However, MPs did not vote on the position that interested Ukrainians most: that of defence minister, from which president Volodymyr Zelensky had dismissed Fedorov.
As the next parliamentary sitting will not take place until 18 August because of the summer recess, Ukraine will be without a defence minister for more than a month.
Zelensky said on Thursday that acting head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Yevhen Khmara, would temporarily perform the role.
