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Thousands protest across Ukraine after President Zelenskyy fires tech-savvy defense minister

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom

Published July 16, 2026 at 12:07 PM EDT

As part of a big government reshuffling, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed his defense minister, Mykhailo Federov.

Toma Istomina, deputy chief editor of The Kyiv Independent, joins host Scott Tong to discuss the outrage that has followed Federov’s ousting and how this may impact Ukraine’s ongoing war with Russia.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.