Ukraine’s Zelenskiy meets commanders as street protests mount

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met some of Ukraine’s top military commanders to try to ease growing discontent with the defence leadership that has triggered the largest street protests since Russia’s invasion in 2022.

Thousands of people in Kyiv and other cities took to the streets for several days in a row, defying martial law, to protest against last week’s removal of young reformer Mykhailo Fedorov as defence minister and to demand the dismissal of Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi....