Zelenskyy Faces Challenge to His Wartime Rule as Former Defense Chief Calls for Election Ukraine's wartime leadership has long been marked by a delicate balance between military necessity and democratic norms.
But former defense chief Mykhailo Fedorov's recent call for wartime elections has exposed the tensions at the heart of Volodymyr Zelenskyy's rule, forcing the president to confront a challenge that threatens to upend this fragile equilibrium.
Fedorov's statement, delivered in a YouTube video that quickly went viral, was less an attack on Zelenskyy than a call for Ukraine's democratic future.