# Ukraine’s sacked defence minister calls for wartime elections

https://mins.news/en/item/25899

- Al Jazeera, 2026-08-19 08:46 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/19/ukraines-sacked-defence-minister-calls-for-wartime-elections?traffic_source=rss

> Recently dismissed Ukrainian Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has called for elections during wartime, saying the country faces a governance crisis. It is the first such demand from a major Ukrainian political figure since Russia’s invasion began in 2022.

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