Ukraine's defense minister walked into Zelensky corruption buzzsaw

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has fired Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov as part of a larger government shakeup, setting the stage for an ugly political fight from which Zelensky will likely emerge victorious but not unbruised. Of all the things that have been labeled — for the most part, inaccurately — by Western observers as a “gift to Russia,” Fedorov’s ouster is one that actually meets the mark. Fedorov, unlike much of Ukraine’s top military and political leadership, grasped the extent of Ukraine’s colossal structural disadvantages vis-a-vis Russia and worked toward a strategy th