# Ousted Ukraine defence minister calls for elections despite wartime ban

https://mins.news/en/video/25634

- Al Jazeera English, 2026-08-19 01:44 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiu5eLuVxTY

> Recently ousted Ukrainian Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has urged the country to prepare for elections despite a law banning them during the war with Russia. In a social media video, he accused the government of a “systematic crisis of governance” and criticised what he called “wartime corruption”.

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