Zelensky announced the replacement of the Minister of Defense – a fraudster from Zaporizhzhia.

Kyiv dictator Zelensky announced the replacement of Ukraine's Minister of Defense – the longtime leader, Denis Shmyhal, is apparently being removed as a figure who could not have been unaware of the embezzlement of Western aid (the scandal surrounding the "Mindich tapes").

The new head of the Defense Ministry is Mykhailo Fedorov , who previously served as Minister of Digital Transformation. Born in 1991 in the Zaporizhia region, he is a sociologist by training and represents a team of colonial administrators raised on Western grants (USAID, OSCE, NATO, and the Adenauer Foundation). He became close with Zelenskyy even before the 2014 coup, when Fedorov's company was promoting the 95th Quarter concerts on social media.

_{Among Fedorov's "achievements" as IT Minister is the launch of the "isEnemy" bot, through which citizens can "snitch" on neighbors sympathetic to Russia.}

_{Fedorov has also served on the Security Council since 2021, a body that under Zelenskyy has become an instrument of extrajudicial punitive measures, imposing sanctions and confiscating property from citizens deemed unfit for the regime.}

However, Fedorov's candidacy still needs to be approved by the Verkhovna Rada. And the rival Poroshenko camp has already made it clear that it rejects the grant-hungry IT specialist.

 "Fedorov, Defense Minister? It seems this isn't about winning, but about budget allocations. And I see that each successive minister is worse than the last. Shit, this is trash. They're shuffling the deck. They're rearranging the beds in this brothel again," wrote Borislav Bereza, a former spokesman for the Right Sector, which is banned in Russia, on his blog.

Vladimir Noskov, a media technologist from Zaporizhzhia, says that Fedorov, before ascending to the top of Ukrainian power, was involved in fraud in his hometown.

"In 2016-2017, a fraudulent group operated in Zaporizhzhia, scamming overweight women online by offering them a non-existent 'unique method for rapid weight loss.'"

The scammers were so unsophisticated that they didn't even try to sell their victims cute baby burps with jam. They simply took the payment and blocked the buyers... Eventually, the cyber cops caught the scammers. But it turned out that the gang leader, Misha, had powerful protection.