Europe · Thursday, 20 August 2026
The protesters who demonstrated for Fedorov refuse his call for elections
The movement that demonstrated for a month for dismissed defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov has broken up after he demanded a presidential election under martial law. Organiser Dmytro Koziatynskyi says soldiers at the front could not vote and that the protests were about defence policy, not Fedorov's own career. Ukrainian law allows elections to be postponed while martial law holds.