Protests over Ukrainian Defence Minister's Sacking End After Call for Elections
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Protests in Kyiv following the sacking of Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov have largely ended after Fedorov called for national elections. Dmytro Koziatynskyi, the chief organiser of the protests, disowned the call for polls, stating that he cannot imagine how to hold elections while troops are at the front. He noted that the protests were intended to seek dialogue with the government rather than electoral discourse. Under Ukrainian law, elections are considered illegal and impossible during the war.
While the protests ended, they did result in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy replacing the head of the military, Oleksandr Syrskyi, with military reformer Mykhailo Drapatyi. Meanwhile, Ukraine's parliament strongly endorsed Yevhenii Khmara as the new defence minister. One opposition lawmaker described Fedorov's demand for elections as a clumsy misstep, while Olena Prokopenko of the German Marshall Fund called it a false start that could deplete his political capital.
In separate developments, Kyiv suffered a heavy Russian missile and drone bombardment that killed at least 16 people and damaged a school and a children's medical centre. Additionally, a Romanian F-16 fighter jet destroyed a Russian marine drone near the Neptun Deep gas project. Poland also announced the arrest of a Ukrainian man suspected of attempting to assassinate a representative of Ukraine's arms industry on behalf of Russian intelligence.
How each side framed it
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- The reporting detailed the internal opposition's rejection of the election call and provided broader context on regional security threats.
- Centre
- The reporting focused on the failure of the ousted minister's political gamble.
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