THE PRESIDENT VS. THE GENERAL
Ukrainian General Valery Zaluzhny wants the war to end now, and President Volodymyr Zelensky may just have fired him
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It’s suddenly a tabloid war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is reported to have demanded that General Valery Zaluzhny, the battle-scarred and much respected commander of Ukraine’s armed forces, resign. Zaluzhny has said nothing in public, but his spokesman has denied that his boss was fired.
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