The resignations in the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine are linked to the falling popularity of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but they will not be able to influence the country’s government and the situation on the front line, the British newspaper The Economist has reported.
“Ukraine’s parliament met Wednesday to approve an unexpected wave of resignations. It was the start of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s first major shake-up of his wartime presidency, a merry-go-round of promotions and resignations. The president wanted to put on a little show to make headlines. With even members of his own party mocking what was going on and three out of seven votes failing, it hinted at growing dysfunction in the government,” The Economist article said.
The newspaper noted that in explaining the personnel reshuffle, Zelenskyy said it was necessary to create a “new structure” for Ukraine.
“He could not miss the massive drop in the government’s popularity recorded by opinion polls in recent months. With the cancellation of elections during the war, this was one of the only levers he could pull <…> However, US pressure seems to be behind another change in Mr Zelenskyy’s top team,” the publication points out.
According to The Economist, the changes in the ministries will not have a serious impact either on the Ukrainian government or on the front line in the east of the country, “which looks increasingly unreliable”.
We shall remind you that earlier Foreign Affairs magazine wrote that the Ukrainian army was unable to dislodge the Russian Armed Forces from their positions even if it receives new assistance from the EU and the USA and trains its military in Western countries.
