Zelenskyy under growing pressure to reinstate sacked defence minister

<p>Campaigners in Ukraine pledge to continue nationwide protests until Mykhailo Fedorov gets his job back </p><p>Volodymyr Zelenskyy was under growing pressure to reinstate his sacked defence minister on Wednesday, after campaigners said they would continue indefinite nationwide protests until Mykhailo Fedorov got his job back.</p><p>On Tuesday, Zelenskyy bowed to public demands by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/21/zelenskyy-replaces-military-leader-and-brings-back-defence-minister-he-sacked">firing Ukraine’s commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi</a>. He appointed <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/22/mykhailo-drapatyi-ukrainians-hope-new-commander-will-end-armys-soviet-culture">Mykhailo Drapatyi as the new head of the country’s armed forces</a>, as part of a radical reshuffle of the top military command.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/22/volodymyr-zelenskyy-pressure-reinstate-sacked-defence-minister-mykhailo-fedorov">Continue reading...</a>