The Call for a Ukrainian Election Is Compelling and Wrong
Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Mykhailo Fedorov’s argument makes sense. That doesn’t make it correct Photographer: Andrew Kravchenko/Bloomberg Mykhailo Fedorov is perhaps the standout political figure to have been forged in Ukraine by Russia’s invasion. He is smart, young, so far untouched by any corruption scandal and the force behind two transformations that have proved critical to his nation’s survival: drone warfare and digital government. Even so, his demand this week for wartime presidential elections was reckless and wrong. Fedorov, whose July 15 sacking as defense minister prompted street protests, dropped a video address on Tuesday night that delivered as powerful an expression of what Ukrainians are fighting for as you could hope to see.