Dismissal of Ukraine’s defence chief sparks political crisis

Rare protests erupted in Ukraine on Thursday over the dismissal of defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov as a dispute between the reformer and Kyiv’s top general spilled into the open during the president’s second overhaul of his wartime cabinet in a year.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s reshuffle has fuelled public anger over his exclusion of Fedorov, a 35-year-old tech expert who has aimed to reshape Kyiv’s outmanned army into a more efficient fighting force to take on Russia....