According to reports, Zelensky canned Rostislav Shurma, the deputy head of his office, and accepted resignation letters from three ministers this week. Ukraine's deputy prime minister also called it quits in a sudden departure.
Zelensky issued a decree on the Ukrainian government's website that Shurma is no longer employed by the regime, but no reason was specified for his sudden dismissal.
Ruslan Stefanchuk, the speaker of Ukraine's parliament, further revealed that the following politicians all resigned this week:
Vice Prime Minister for European Integration Olga Stefanishina
Minister for Strategic Industries Aleksandr Kamyshin
Minister of Justice Denis Maliuski
Minister of Environmental Protection Ruslan Strilets
Zelensky is also said to be considering firing Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba and numerous other high-level officials, this according to numerous anonymous sources familiar with the matter.
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Ukraine is losing
Ever since the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine, Zelensky's government has been a revolving door. Senior officials come and go at Zelensky's whim, it would seem, usually having to do with Ukraine's setbacks and failures in holding back Russia.
Valery Zaluzhny, the former commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces, was axed by Zelensky earlier this year following a failed counteroffensive that resulted in about 160,000 Ukrainian military men losing their lives.
Last fall, Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov was fired for his alleged involvement in major corruption scandals that may have played a role in Ukraine losing said counteroffensive.
In his most recent round of firings, it appears as though Zelensky targeted key senior officials described as "reformists," suggesting they were trying to do something other than what Zelensky wanted them to do. One media source described these now-fired reformists as appearing "especially close to Washington."
Every time Zelensky fires people, the Ukrainian military seems to suffer another harsh loss on the battlefield. Take the most recent cross-border offensive into Russia's Kursk Region. That effort turned into a massive failure after Ukraine lost more than 9,300 troops and nearly 750 armored vehicles.
Ukraine is now throwing everything it has left at the Kursk offensive in the hopes that something will stick. Ukraine's most battle-hardened troops have all been redirected there as Russian forces gain major ground in the Donbass region where they hope to regain an important logistics hub called Pokrovsk.
It sounds from various media sources as if just about everyone underneath Zelensky blames him for Ukraine's continued failure to win the war against Russia. Soldiers, lawmakers, and military analysts alike are all pointing fingers at Zelensky as the biggest loser in the room when it comes to keeping Russia out of Donbass.
"A sure sign of victory is more and more leaders being purged," one commenter sarcastically wrote. "Clearly the war is going in Ukraine's favor. Why, at this rate, not only will the West be down to the last Ukrainian, but Zelensky will also run out of Ukrainians to fire."
Another expressed sadness over the massive loss of Ukrainian life under Zelensky the "tin pot dictator and thug."
"The reality is that Russia was just offered a golden retreat while gentile Ukrainians, on the other hand, are left with a destroyed, indebted country and half a million dead."
Another called Zelensky an "unhinged nutcase" who has sent Ukraine down a dark path of no return.
"It was always going to end badly," this person added. "The only thing left to do is make sure that he's gone for good."
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