‼️THIS IS NOT ABOUT DEFENCE MINISTER FEDOROV. People didn’t pour into the streets this week for one man. They came out for their own future. For how power actually gets used in this country. For a sane personnel policy. Against corruption. Ukrainians have bitten their tongue for years. We didn’t want protests, and most of us still don’t – because we know every bit of internal chaos is a gift to Moscow, on the battlefield and in the information war. That silence was a choice, a disciplined one. But we’re in the fifth year of full-scale war and the seventh year of this presidency. And there’s a difference between staying united and being expected to swallow whatever gets shovelled at us – especially when nobody bothers to explain anything and the people’s opinion is treated like it doesn’t exist. (Reminder, since it keeps getting forgotten: under our own Constitution, power belongs to the people.) So when the PM and the entire cabinet got binned overnight – a government that was already hand-controlled from one office – and Fedorov was thrown out after six months, nobody understood why. Doesn’t matter how I or they felt about any of these people personally. It made no sense. And I’m not even going to get into how someone has a habit of quietly sidelining popular, charismatic people whose ratings climb a little too high – because apparently only one person is allowed to be the great and the best. And here’s the thing about Fedorov, and it’s got nothing to do with whether I like him. The man is a builder. A good manager, an innovator – and in this war innovation isn’t a nice-to-have, it’s the whole game. We are never going to physically out-gun a Russian army that is much more bigger with unlimited human capacity. Our only shot is asymmetry: drones, tech, speed, brains. And it’s been working. That’s a big part of why we’re still standing. Reporting says he ran audits that shut down big corruption schemes, dragged contracts into open tenders, digitised lots of stuff in the ministry. The Commander-in-Chief and the old military elite didn’t beat Fedorov’s ideas on merit – apparently they smothered them in process. Refusing to take responsibility is itself a decision. And it’s one that costs us on the front line. So here’s what people are actually asking for. Talk to us. WE ARE NOT IDIOTS. Explain the decision. Own your mistakes where you made them. Show the strategy. Lay out the vision. That’s what leadership in a democracy requires, no matter how difficult it is. Ukraine’s real edge in this war has been trust, openness, decentralisation, and moving faster than the enemy. Our own government should look like that – not fight against it. Accountability doesn’t crack wartime unity. Fake unity, built on silence and “just trust us,” is what cracks. Responsibility means standing in front of the people you serve and explaining yourself. Everything else is just holding on to a chair.