Zelensky dismisses Defense Minister Fedorov
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49485869
Ukraine’s Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has been dismissed and is expected to be replaced by Ihor Klymenko.
Mykhailo Fedorov was a reformer who is credited with successes like directing money to purchase of medium and long range drones that are now being used very effectively, audits uncovering billions of dollars worth of overspending, moving some procurement to open tender, gamification of drone warfare with more points allotted to outcomes Ukraine prefers to incentivize (ex. killing enemy soldiers) and successfully lobbying Musk to shut down Starlink for Russia. However, he has had conflicts with the heads of the military such as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi; critics say that without a military background he is not qualified to plan a war, and that he is just good at attaching his name to pre-existing efforts that turned out well.
https://kyivindependent.com/defense-minister-fedorov-set-to-leave-post-senior-official-confirms/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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WTF? As the text says:
Fedorov is the brains behind a huge part of the success Ukraine is currently enjoying!
He was key in getting SpaceX to shut down Starlink for the Russians in Ukraine, and he was behind the massive purchasing of drones that is now turning the war to Ukraine's advantage. And the strategy to award successful drone pilots with more drones.
Again WTF he did better than any general in the Ukrainian military has done!
I really really hope Ukraine is doing the right thing, but I suspect not.
Edit:
After reading the entire article, it seems pretty clear that this is an insanely stupid decision. In 6 months Fedorov has been behind no less than 20 successful strategies against Russia. with the above mentioned being only 2 of them!!
All because a general is pissed that Fedorov wants to modernize some of the old post Russian structures, and make them NATO like, in part to prevent corruption!!
Goddammit!? 😬