'The current situation with the reported threat of dismissing the popular young defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov reminds me of early 2020, when Zelensky suddenly fired his first defense minister, Andriy Zahorodniuk.
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Fedorov, with enormous progress in Ukraine's digital transformation behind him, has served as defense minister for only about six months.
He managed to cut Russians off from Starlink, drone production is booming, digitalization is accelerating, processes are being optimized, AI is being introduced on a massive scale, and there is now a strategy for technological superiority over Russia.
And that's it --Fedorov has already fallen out of favor because the young IT guy did not get along with General Syrskyi and his methods of working.'
- Illia Ponomarenko (
Source, July 13, 2026)
Context'..Mykhailo Fedorov .. the best defense minister in Ukraine's history