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Ukraine keeps changing defense ministers. Is that hurting the war effort?
Politics

Ukraine keeps changing defense ministers. Is that hurting the war effort?

by Martin Fornusek

President Volodymyr Zelensky's unexpected dismissal of Ukraine's defense minister triggered protests across the country and caught some of Ukraine's foreign partners off guard. Mykhailo Fedorov is the fourth person to leave the post since Russia launched its full-scale invasion, an extraordinary turnover at one of the country's most critical ministries. His removal comes at an especially precarious moment, as Ukraine races to secure additional Patriot interceptors and launches multi-billion-do

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