Maria R.

[Adrian P 🇷🇴🇺🇦🇪🇺 @AdrianP_doc]

Fedorov probably tanked his chances of being reinstated aa minister and even maybe is risking his life by telling the truth about Sirsky at the presser today.

He chose to tell the truth to the Ukrainian people for the good of the country.

Rare for a politician.

[Adrian P 🇷🇴🇺🇦🇪🇺 @AdrianP_doc]

At least 10 Ukrainian service members are under arrest for being involved in an extrajudicial killing at the behest of their brigade commander.

Zelensky had a choice between the general who fostered this culture of top down obedience and the defense minister trying to clean it up.

He chose the general.

I have always been here for the people I love in Ukraine and the Ukrainian people in general.

And I see today that they have to fight on two fronts.

The first against Soviet generals who literally want to kill them and the second against Soviet generals who want to keep their country in the past and under control.

Whatever his achievements in holding the country together and gaining foreign support during rhe war, Zelensky is not good for Ukraine's future.

[SK Media @SpaghettiKozak]

Yeah let's replace the innovative guy who quickly got results because the Soviet failure says so. Great leadership, @ZelenskyyUa.

[Cloooud |🇺🇦 @GloOouD]

Mass protests against President Zelenskyy’s decision to dismiss Ukraine’s Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov from his post!

Mr President, if your approval ratings matter to you, then you should listen to the people! Reinstate Fedorov!

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Firing Mykhailo Fedorov was a big mistake.

During his time as Defense Minister, Ukraine started to regain momentum on the battlefield. He delivered real results, and his team modernized key parts of Ukraine's military and even managed to cut Russian forces in occupied territories off from Starlink, disrupting their operations.

[Kadi🇪🇪🌻 @TheFl0orIsLaVa]

You know it hurts when russia suddenly remembers international law.

[Julian Röpcke 🇩🇪🤝🇺🇦 @JulianRoepcke]

Die ukrainische Armee hat eine mit Sprengstoff beladene Schwimmdrohne gegen das FSB-Schiff „Izumrud“ im streng bewachten Hafen von Noworossiysk eingesetzt.

➡️Vom 62 Meter langen Grenzpatrouillenschiff der Rubin-Klasse ist laut ersten Satellitenbildern nicht viel übrig geblieben.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Ukraine cannot afford a new political crisis right now. Firing @FedorovMykhailo would trigger just that, both within Ukrainian society and with many international partners. I hope that differences can be resolved through more modest means.

[SK Media @SpaghettiKozak]

If they actually fire Fedorov, I hope the reaction in Kyiv is like when they tried to cripple NABU last year.

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

Federov should not be replaced. Ukraine has such positive momentum right now. I hope this does not go through. Federov is quite popular as well.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Among Zelensky's main shortcomings as president are his endless favoritism and his carelessness in personnel policy.

Ever since 2019, there has always been someone this guy, someone at his shoulder, standing behind Zelensky and quietly whispering things into his ear. First it was the notorious lawyer Andriy Bohdan, then, until recently, the untouchable gray cardinal Andriy Yermak, then someone else.

The current situation with the reported threat of dismissing the popular young defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov reminds me of early 2020, when Zelensky suddenly fired his first defense minister, Andriy Zahorodniuk.

It seemed that, after a succession of post-Soviet parade generals, the new president had appointed the country's first genuine civilian defense minister in line with the Western principle of civilian control over the military, a man from senior business management.

Many long-overdue reforms got underway, there was a clear plan, and anti-corruption watchdogs were quite pleased.

But nope -- Less than six months later, Zelensky fired Zahorodniuk before allowing him to finish almost anything he had started.

Because he had "failed to prove himself." At the time, however, the circles around the Defense Ministry, the Presidential Office, and the press persistently said that the sudden decision had been pushed by none other than Andriy Yermak, who had become head of the Presidential Office just a couple of weeks earlier and immediately began putting his own people in place and getting rid of those he disliked.

After his dismissal, Zahorodniuk insisted in conversations that he had never had any conflict with Yermak, but the press of those years persistently reported that Yermak had convinced Zelensky to throw out the defense minister because he objected to the then-time drama of pulling back Ukrainian troops from the frontline with Russian-controlled militant formations in Donbas.

The business manager in a suit was replaced by yet another post-Soviet general from the military bureaucracy, Andriy Taran -- who, during his two years in office became memorable mainly for being unable to string two words together and for constantly failing to complete the state defense procurement program.

That is how we ended up with the endless, barely comprehensible carousel of reshuffles, dismissals, and appointments, which people here in Ukraine sometimes refer to as "rearranging the beds in a brothel."

And now it is starting again.

Fedorov, with enormous progress in Ukraine's digital transformation behind him, has served as defense minister for only about six months.

He managed to cut Russians off from Starlink, drone production is booming, digitalization is accelerating, processes are being optimized, AI is being introduced on a massive scale, and there is now a strategy for technological superiority over Russia.

And that's it -- Fedorov has already fallen out of favor because the young IT guy did not get along with General Syrskyi and his methods of working.

And, according to rumors, Fedorov and his reforms have become a thorn in the side of those who have gotten too used to making very good money from military production.

Now Ihor Klymenko, the interior minister and former chief of the National Police, is reportedly being lined up to replace Fedorov. He is remembered mainly for his video in which he boasted about how National Guard recruits are drilled obsessively to make their beds with the sheets aligned perfectly to a string.

Every time our Defense Ministry starts climbing even half a head above the stagnant swamp, Zelensky's favorites always pop up and whisper in his ear -- urging him to appoint yet another mediocrity who would be comfortable for everyone, change nothing, and get in nobody's way.

That is how we live and fight -- two steps forward, one and a half steps back.

[Julian Röpcke 🇩🇪🤝🇺🇦 @JulianRoepcke]

In der Tat macht die angeblich geplante Kabinettsänderung den Eindruck erfolgreichen Lobbyismus gegen einen jungen Minister, der Reformen angeht und die Korruption im Verteidigungswesen bekämpfen will.

Gerade in einer Zeit ohne Wahlen sollte jeder Besetzung Stabilität bringen.

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

Russian opposition figure Igor Eidman claimed that Senator Lindsey Graham may have been poisoned in a Kremlin intelligence operation. Graham had announced progress on new Russia sanctions roughly two days before his death, but US officials have not reported any foul play.

[Sir William Browder KCMG @Billbrowder]

I agree with this. Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but Lindsay Graham was the leading driver of the devastating sanctions bill against Russia. Yesterday, he announced that president Trump agreed to it. He had just returned from Ukraine where it’s not unknown for Russian agents to operate. Russians are expert at administration of poisons that look like heart attacks. All tests should be done immediately to rule out foul play. I’ve seen enough Russian related suspicious deaths to know this is the only course of action

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Elon Musk's foundation paid Tommy Robinson's trip to Russia.

This system of international far-right oligarchy should make more people angry.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

Russian opposition figure Igor Eidman claimed that Lindsey Graham may have been killed by Kremlin intelligence services

According to sociologist Eidman, two factors point in this direction — the timing and the location.

Moscow had a motive: Graham actively advocated for increased pressure on Russia and support for Ukraine. He had also recently said that Trump supported his bill introducing new “hellish sanctions” against the Russian Federation.

He was considered the most pro-Ukrainian politician in the U.S. president’s circle. He promoted military assistance for Kyiv, including Tomahawk missiles, and lobbied for security guarantees for Ukraine.

Eidman claims that the Kremlin may have viewed the senator as one of the people influencing Trump’s shift in position and his departure from his previous approach toward Russia.

As a second argument, he pointed to Graham’s trip to Ukraine. According to the sociologist’s theory, a possible poisoning could have occurred during the visit, for example, through the use of a slow-acting substance.

He suggested that Russian intelligence services could have used remaining agent networks in Ukraine to carry out such an operation.

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

NEW:

Not too long ago, Tucker Carlson interviewed Putin Advisor Alexander Dugin @AGDugin who called for Senator Lindsey Graham to be assassinated. Dugin has since deleted the tweet.

Just a few months ago, Tucker Carlson had blood splatter imagery of Lindsey Graham on his podcast to vilify him with the title, “they’re hijacking MAGA”.

Oddly enough, around the same time this podcast aired, Dugin said the same thing about Graham while Russian state media called for the pro-Ukraine Senator to be assassinated.

Last week, Iran and Russia called for Graham’s assassination.

One day after returning from Ukraine, he is now dead.

Poison can cause someone to go into cardiac arrest.

Was Lindsey Graham assassinated by Russia or Iran?

It’s time for all of these insane Woke Reich podcasters with ties to Dugin to be investigated by @FBIDirectorKash and @SecScottBessent. It’s obvious these podcasters all have coordinated and nearly identical messaging with Russia, and it’s time for this to be investigated by the DOJ.

Enough is enough. This is getting very dangerous.

Why was Tucker allowed to go to Russia and interview Putin and Dugin?

What’s the real story?

Why does Dugin promote @TuckerCarlson on a daily basis while calling for the assassination of US lawmakers and the destruction of the United States?

I hope people in MAGA open their eyes to see just how evil the Russian government really is.

Something is terribly wrong and I suspect Lindsey Graham was murdered.

None of this makes sense.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

So it turns out that the last political act of Lindsey Graham’s long career before his death was a trip to Ukraine.

He met with Zelensky, toured drone manufacturing facilities, and once again spoke about his long-stalled bill imposing sweeping sanctions on buyers of Russia’s blood-soaked oil.

He had a cardiac arrest, according to NBC News.

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

Alexander Dugin, one of Putin’s advisors, recently called for Senator Lindsey Graham to be killed. He said the world would be better without Graham.

Yesterday, Lindsey Graham was in Ukraine meeting with @ZelenskyyUa Zelensky and called for more sanctions against Russia and pledged more US support for Ukraine.

One day later, Lindsey Graham is dead.

There needs to be an investigation!

[Denys Shtilierman @DenShtilierman]

Кремль, розуміючи всю патовість власного становища, активізував своїх «опозиціонерів». Інтерв'ю Яшина, стаття Андрія Мельниченка для The Economist і подібне — це скоординовані дії, спрямовані виключно на те, щоб переконати Європу і весь західний світ: поразка Росії небезпечна.

Основний аргумент — гра на головному страху Заходу. Мовляв, коли Росія програє, вона розвалиться на десятки республік на чолі з бандформуваннями, у яких буде доступ до ядерної зброї. А головний меседж — це буквальний заклик тиснути не на агресора, а на жертву: «Треба давити на Україну, щоб вона припинила бити по Росії і сіла за стіл переговорів».

І найбільша проблема в усьому цьому — зачарованість Росією західних ЗМІ. Через довірливість, підкуп чи просто некомпетентність багато великих медіа транслюють російського мільярдера Мельниченка та російських «опозиціонерів» так, ніби ті справді протистоять Кремлю.

А варто лише трохи підключити логіку — і все стає на місця. Захід сам заявив, що Росія тоталітарна країна. Захід давно поставив знак рівності між Путіним і Кім Чен Ином. То чому раптом вважається, що в такій системі може народитися і вільно діяти справжня опозиція?

На цьому тлі неймовірно дивно виглядають фігури на кшталт Яшина чи Кара-Мурзи. Люди, які виступали проти Кремля, спокійно посиділи в російській «зоні», без ознак тортур і навіть не схуднувши, а потім були вигідно обміняні й дбайливо доправлені на Захід — просувати ті самі путінські наративи, тільки вже з європейських трибун. Але тепер у Росії все настільки погано, що доводиться вскривати всі «консерви» й задіювати «опозиціонерів» у скоординованій інформаційній спецоперації. Бо всі в Кремлі розуміють: якщо терміново не припинити війну, імперія впаде.

Висновок простий. Немає ніякої «хорошої Росії». Є єдина імперська машина, яка в моменти слабкості просто змінює інструмент: не вдалося залякати ракетами — спробуємо залякати «розпадом» і «ядерним хаосом» вустами системних «опозиціонерів».