President Volodymyr Zelensky triggered anxiety among Ukrainians and allies after firing tech guru Mykhailo Federov as defense minister after only six months in the job because he was butting heads with the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrsky. Zelensky also dismissed the country’s Prime Minister, dissolved her cabinet, and may fire General Syrsky too, after Federov claimed he enabled corruption. Protesters hit the streets of Kyiv in support of Federov, and Russian propagandists, led by “milbloggers,” announced that Federov’s departure would cripple Ukraine on the battlefield. But such predictions are wrong.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Zelensky has reshuffled his government four times since Russia’s 2022 invasion, still fends off Russia, and will replace Federov with arguably a more experienced drone and military guru, Yevhenii Khmara. Ukraine will remain the world’s foremost drone nation. As CIA director John Ratcliffe recently noted: “Ukrainian artificial-intelligence-guided drones have reduced the average battlefield survival time of new Russian recruits to 20 or 30 minutes.” The slaughter is so fierce that Russian recruiters are being kicked out of poor countries, Bloomberg reported. For instance, Botswana’s government has raised the alarm over the escalating “alarming rate” of its citizens being tricked into traveling to Russia under pretenses – such as fake job or military training offers – only to be coerced and trafficked into active combat on the front lines of the Ukraine war, where they are mostly incinerated.