It is never a slow news day in Ukraine.
Recent headlines have featured protests (democracy and free speech are thriving!) against the Government’s decision to replace the popular 35-year-old Minister of Defence, Mykhailo Fedorov, after merely six successful months.
Behind the scenes is a struggle of tactics and personalities, a new digitised and tech-oriented warfare, and the traditional personnel-dependent methods of the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi.
Responding to racism
“I’m not a racist.” My observation is that if this were in fact the case, such protest would be unnecessary. …