Zelenskyy ousts Ukraine army chief after protests - The Latest

22 July 2026 · 10m

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired his commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, in Ukraine’s biggest military shake-up in two years. Nationwide protests broke out after Zelenskyy sacked Mykhailo Fedorov as defence minister, who the Ukraine president says will now be brought back into government in a ‘prominent position’. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s senior international correspondent Luke Harding – watch on YouTube. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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