$100 Billion Later: Zelensky Fires Defense Minister Reznikov As Bodies of Cannon Fodder Pile High in Ukrainian Morgues
Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov displays his letter of resignation
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Sunday he is firing Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov (Gateway reported) in the face of massive losses and halting Ukrainian “counter-offensive.” Reznikov said the West has provided Ukraine with $100 billion in arms, including $50 billion from the USA. Ukraine claimed it had pierced the first line of Russian defenses in the south of Ukraine, as the BBC acknowledged “a dramatic rise in Ukraine’s number of dead”.
On Sunday Volodymyr Zelensky Zelensky said the Defense Ministry “needs new approaches and new formats of interaction both with the military and society as a whole.” He said he would propose Rustem Umerov, current head of the State Property Fund of Ukraine,
