Ukraine\u2019s Defense Minister Fedorov resigned after clashing with Gen. Syrsky over strategy. Meanwhile, Ukraine hit Russia hard: sank the FSB ship Izumrud near Novorossiysk, damaged tankers south of Kerch, hit oil refineries, Wildberries warehouses, and 172+ \u201cshadow fleet\u201d vessels since Operation MoLochKa began. Ground fighting continues around Hulyaipole, Kostiantynivka, and Kherson, where forced evacuations hint at a possible southern offensive. France pledged major military aid, including fighter jets and joint arms manufacturing with Ukraine.<\/p>\n
The big Kyiv political typhoon-in-a-teakettle news last week was the departure of Ukraine\u2019s cool, Gen-Z Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, according to him, because he told President Volodymyr Zelensky to pick between him and General Oleksandr Syrsky and Zelensky picked that old stick-in-the-mud Boomer Syrsky.<\/p>\n
There has been much handwringing and pearls-clutching over this by the smartphone class. There were pro-Fedorov protests in several big Ukrainian cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s Defense Minister Fedorov resigned after clashing with Gen. Syrsky over strategy. Meanwhile, Ukraine hit Russia hard: sank…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-781349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}