Zelensky struggles to bridge generational gap in military approach to Russia

The worm may have turned on the battlefield for Ukraine, but all of its progress faced the prospect of being derailed by a generational dispute about how to bring an end to its four-year war with Russia.

President Volodymyr Zelensky thought he had resolved a divide within his cabinet by firing popular Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, but his dismissal prompted protests, which ultimately pressured him into dismissing Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander in chief of Ukraine’s military, with whom Fedorov had been feuding.