New Delhi, July 16 -- KYIV - Bohdan Huryak did not come to the Ivan Franko National Theatre on Thursday for politics. He came because someone who had been winning was gone. "This is a person who shows results on the battlefield," the Kyiv resident said. "We see results, we feel the fighting spirit and confidence in victory rising." What changed Thursday was that those results now belonged to the past tense.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov on Thursday, ending the six-month tenure of the 35-year-old who turned unmanned aerial vehicles into Ukraine's most consequential military asset. The dismissal prompted one of the starkest displays of public dissent seen in wartime Kyiv, with crowds gathering in...