Ukraine’s War Effort Just Got a Reboot at the Top

Ukraine’s survival against a vastly more powerful Russian foe has always rested on an uneasy alliance between a corrupt state, steeped in Soviet-era reflexes, and a more innovative, Westward-looking population, much of it too young to have been shaped by the former USSR. The recent showdown between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s 60-year-old top military commander and his 35-year-old defense minister had threatened to destroy that partnership. His decision on Tuesday to fire the former and reins