Fedorov Publishes Video Address on Corruption Governance Crisis and Ukraine We
Fedorov said Ukraine needs a legal, safe way to renew elections despite wartime restrictions, calling corruption a drag on the war effort.
- On Tuesday, Mykhailo Fedorov called for wartime elections in a YouTube address, marking the biggest internal challenge to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy since 2022.
- The 35-year-old Fedorov was fired in July, just six months after his appointment, an action he believes resulted from his overhaul of defence ministry procurement processes.
- Alleging a "systemic crisis of governance," Fedorov criticized official corruption, stating, "The old system lives by its own rules too often. It is scared of change."
- Arguing that "democracy cannot be held hostage by Russia," Fedorov demanded a "legal, safe and realistic mechanism" to renew Ukraine's democratic process during the long-running war.
- Ukrainian law currently prohibits holding elections during wartime, and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's office has provided no immediate comment on Fedorov's public statement.
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Ukraine's ousted defence minister calls for wartime elections
Ukraine's recently ousted defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for wartime elections in a bombshell address on Tuesday evening, stating that the wartime nation faced a crisis of governance, in the biggest internal challenge to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy since 2022.
Ukraine must find a mechanism to hold the elections in wartime: this is what former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov asked, who in a speech on Youtube today said that "democracy cannot be kept in the way of... (ANSA)
Mykhailo Fedorov, who was dismissed in July, called on Tuesday to create the conditions for holding elections despite the Russian invasion.
Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov called on Tuesday for elections in Ukraine, which has been resisting a full-scale Russian invasion for five years, the newspaper Ukrainska Pravda reported. According to Fedorov, democracy must not be held hostage by Russia.
Former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov on August 18 addressed Ukrainians with a statement that the country cannot remain without a fully appointed defense minister, and democracy should depend on the will of the Kremlin.
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