Ukraine’s ousted Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for wartime elections in a bombshell address on Tuesday, arguing the nation faced a crisis of governance, in the biggest internal challenge to President Volodymyr Zelensky since Russia’s invasion.
Fedorov’s call, delivered in a video address posted on YouTube, is the first such demand by a major Ukrainian political figure since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022. Ukrainian law prohibits holding elections during wartime.
“Democracy cannot be held hostage by Russia,” Fedorov said. “We must find a legal, safe and realistic mechanism that will allow Ukraine to renew its full democratic process even in the conditions of a long war.”
The 35-year-old Fedorov was a longtime ally of Zelensky until his unexpected firing from the Defense Ministry in July, just six months after he had been appointed, vowing sweeping reforms.
Restricting Russian starlink wasnt ever really a thing that SpaceX needed convincing of, it was Ukraine that needed to decide it wanted it, as it required a whitelist.
They hadn’t been getting buy in from their soldiers because a lot of dishes were donated and the soldiers were worried they’d lose their dish if they registered it.
Once Russia started putting them on drones that were harder to destroy because of it, push came to shove and a whitelist was authorized and SpaceX actioned it right away.