New Delhi, July 18 -- KYIV - Mykhailo Fedorov had already been told he was out. When Zelenskyy's office called him in for a meeting last week, Fedorov arrived expecting to negotiate a role as presidential adviser. He left without one.

That detail, which Fedorov disclosed at a press conference on Thursday, has become the focal point of the most turbulent week in Ukrainian civil-military relations since the war began. For a second consecutive day on Friday, crowds gathered outside the Bankova - Ukraine's presidential administration - in Kyiv, with similar gatherings reported in Lviv and Dnipro, chanting slogans demanding the removal of General Oleksandr Syrskyi as commander-in-chief. The Financial Times reported that President Zelenskyy is...