monstars.bsky.social @monstars.bsky.social · 03/09/2026The season's defining change had nothing to do with terrain. Zelenskyy dismissed Fedorov as defence minister in mid-July, which triggered a week of protests that ended with Syrskyi losing his job as commander-in-chief. 170
monstars.bsky.social @monstars.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Drapatyi inherited the post along with the front-level instability that followed, instability only partly offset by what AFU delivered operationally over the same weeks. 170
monstars.bsky.social @monstars.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Fedorov's removal is the one that will echo longer — not because of anything happening on a map, but because it landed as a blow to public trust in the reform process itself, at a point where that process was still very much unfinished. 170
