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How Ukraine’s Leadership Crisis Impacts the War

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President Volodymyr Zelensky has sacked his defence minister and army chief after a bitter struggle over Ukraine’s military strategy triggered widespread street protests.

Natia Seskuria of RUSI examines the clash between reformers and the old guard, and the consequences for Zelensky’s democratic reputation. Could this upheaval at the top change the course of the war with Russia?

Guest: Natia Seskuria, Head of Russia and Eurasia Programme at RUSI

Hosts: Lord General Patrick Sanders and Tom Newton Dunn
Patrick brings his experience as a former head of the British Army to the podcast. He is also a Conservative peer and advises the party on defence.

Producer: Julia Webster

Executive producer: Priyanka Deladia

Image: Kathia Mestanza, Getty

Clips: Getty, Reuters

Should Zelensky reinstate Mykhailo Fedorov as minister of defence? Get in touch: generalandjournalist@thetimes.co.uk

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20 Comments

@ThatKarol 2 months ago

Great interview.

@noonecaresaboutgoogle3219 2 months ago (edited)

The number of unnecessary Ukrainian losses Syrskyi is responsible for is depressing. He's even accused of having Ukrainians murdered. It's good that he's gone.

@laurie9557 2 months ago (edited)

What everyone misses is that Syrski's infantry holding the russians in a fierce deadlock along the frontline for the past 2 or 3 years is exactly what enabled innovative Ukrainian engineers to develop the drone and missile technology that resulted in the long and midrange strikes.

@koiguidenishikigoi4972 2 months ago (edited)

These guys usually beg for such positions and then they say they don't know how they got it and it just happened so suddenly oh the British they never change - never in the last 300 years. Humble opinion from India.

@DaniRaj666 2 months ago

Isn't Drapatyi 43 and Syrsky 61, so not really 25 year difference?

@laurie9557 2 months ago

Khmara is more qualified than Federov. Federov has no software development background. His skills are as a social media influencer.

@Bill-k9q3g 2 months ago

What does it all mean? Russia is winning the war. But Times Radio are not allowed to acknowledge reality

@weije093 1 month ago

If the Ukranian egos can not put Ukraine first, europe should reconsider support.

@warrenhalpin 2 months ago

I get more prescient analysis down my local.

@ThịHồngAnhNguyễn-t5h 2 months ago

I wouldn't have sacked Federov I would have frog marched him out the back to a Stern machine gun...his mistakes are beyond measure. Unforgivable ?

@della1731 3 weeks ago

2 little girls in a room talking about a war they have zero clues on except from what they see on there computer

@conflict_monitor 2 months ago

Objective lolololol

@bokigl8045 2 months ago

Wich momentum have Ukraina??? They dont have any port on Blac Sea more to export ot import. 60 mil follard lose every day. Kiev is destroyed and another towns. Wich momentum have Ukraina???? Come on

@beatabilikova4399 2 months ago

Insider sources say that, in his office, Fedorov developed conflicting relations with “everyone” (whatever that means). Also, the protesters requiring Zelensky to bring Fedorov back often chant “Machines instead of people”. Evidently a part of the public got the impression that the war against Russia could be won with unmanned systems alone. Fedorov and his supporters - activists largely spread ideas that boost that myth. Hence, the popularity among the public. Many young Ukrainians likely believe that they wouldn’t get mobilised if Fedorov returns to MOD.

@ajuk7857 2 months ago

Regardless of who is there..result would be the same..and its not going to be positive for zelenskij and the team..

@jonathangutierrez3885 2 months ago

Zelensky fired federov due to the Masonic code and meaning of last names. because if federov came to power zelensky wouldn’t be able to block the return of the holy/nobel family, which would lead to usa losing its massive influence and force usa to pay the usa national debt to the what the government calls the missing holy/nobel family, according to the prophecy told by my grandmother’s great grandmother.

@PistolPeteUK111 2 months ago

Former Head of Staff at the President Office Yermak advised Zelenskiy to get rid of Fedorov seeing him as a threat at the next Presidential Elections because of his success and popularity

@laurie9557 2 months ago

Corruption??? Have you paid any attention to trump's multifacetrd corruption???

@td6460 2 months ago

Tories sold the country out and disarmed the Armed Forces so I am forced to make the default assumption that General Sanders is also a traitor and no good whatever.

@thomasgreaves9091 2 months ago

I have never heard such a vile and utter distortion of the truth. Ukraine is being smashed to pieces by Russia and it is not losing the war, it has lost it. The west sends millions of young Ukrainian men to their death to 'weaken' Russia for its own global hegemony. Well, the west will lose this war along with its proxy Ukraine, while taxpayers in the west pay for the body-bags and the horrors of a nation being sacrificed for geopolitical ends. The psychopaths have their sycophants like the liars being paid to make this video.