Zelenskyy ousts Ukraine army chief after protests - The Latest

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2026-07-22

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired his commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, in Ukraine’s biggest military shake-up in two years. Nationwide protests broke out after Zelenskyy sacked Mykhailo Fedorov as defence minister, who the Ukraine president says will now be brought back into government in a ‘prominent position’. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s senior international correspondent Luke Harding – watch on YouTube. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • Really within hours of the decision,

  • there were people gathering outside Zelensky's presidential office shouting Siesky out.

  • The critique of Zelensky is that he can be centralizing, he makes impulsive and chaotic personnel decisions.

  • What I think is remarkable is that Zelensky, after five days of protests,

  • has essentially bowed to their demands and he's got rid of Zyrsky.

  • From the Guardians today in Focus, this is The Latest with me, Lucy Half.

  • Yesterday, the Ukrainian president, Vladimir Zelensky, fired his commander in chief army, Oleksandr Sersky,

  • in what seems to be the biggest military shakeup in years of this conflict in Ukraine.

  • Luke Harding, you're our senior international correspondent.

  • What's going on?

  • Why has Zelensky made this decision?

  • I think this decision to fire the commander in chief, Colonel General Oleksandr Sersky, is really a victory for...

  • Reformists, for modernizers, for society, civil society in Ukraine, which had demanded that Zelensky was removed.

  • And I think it's a really interesting step.