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 Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov speaks at the "Ukraine and Europe" panel in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Nov. 7, 2024.

A shake-up in Ukraine’s drone buying alarms corruption watchdogs

by Kollen Post

The Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers discreetly dethroned the former czar of drone purchases  — Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov — as the result of a one-sided power struggle from the Head of the President’s Office, Andriy Yermak, allege observers. A new decree shifted a key office in the drone purchasing process

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Azov ex-commander on the need to reform Ukraine's army.

The Kyiv Independent's Francis Farrell sits down with the former commander of Ukraine's Azov Brigade, Lieutenant Colonel Bohdan Krotevych, to discuss the situation on the front line after three years of Russia's full-scale war, why he thinks Ukraine should change its culture of military leadership, why the U.S. army doctrine wouldn't work for Russia's war against Ukraine, and shares his takes on Russia's next steps after a potential ceasefire.
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