Washington Post19 Aug, 2026 06:29 PM5 mins to readFormer Ukraine defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov wants President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to call national elections. Photo / Getty ImagesMykhailo Fedorov, a chief architect of Ukraine’s drone warfare programme, whose dismissal from his post as defence minister by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy set off mass protests last month, has called for wartime elections in Ukraine.
Fedorov’s demand for elections, which are prohibited in wartime by Ukraine’s constitution and under
