Oliver Carroll
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Aug
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It's not been a good week for Ukraine or President Volodymyr Zelensky.
He had his former defence minister Mikhailo Fyodorov call for a presidential election and make not so subtle hints about the corrupt nature of those closest to the president, while anti corruption detectives at the same time stepped up investigations into that close circle.
And all of this is happening at a time when Russia is stepping up brutal attacks on Ukraine's defense industry and its civilian industry, too, swinging the pendulum away from Ukraine.
Several months before any of us expected.
So it's a moment of increasingly limited room for maneuver.
Exactly.
Of course, the first time we heard about this publicly was in July when Mikhail Fyodorov was dismissed from his post six months in by William Zelensky.
This was after essentially a dispute between the defence minister and the top general, Alexander Sirski.
In the end, both of them were dismissed.
But
Fyodorov has been working out slowly what does this make him now?
Is he in the opposition?
Is he still part of Zelensky's team?
And this is one of the sort of tragedies of for Zelensky, at least, of what's happened, because right until very recently, Mikhail Fyodorov was one of the most loyal members of his team.
And
Some of the language which he used, for example, about calling for presidential elections, I know that he was using exactly the same language to push the idea of elections, but to re-elect Zelensky just a few weeks ago.
So this is something that it's a problem of Zelensky's own making.
In many ways Fyodor is a symptom, rather than a cause, of a growing sense of chaos, lack of direction.
And a shrinking circle.
You know, yesterday's revelations, which anti-corruption detectives talked about, this new operation called Forest Gump, which they'd exposed, which purportedly showed presidential staff involved in money laundering.
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