Meanwhile, Fedorov congratulated Drapatyi on his new job, describing his appointment as “new hope in the fight of free people for freedom and justice.”
He said, “It is a voice of change that cannot be ignored.”
Fedorov also said he had called Syrskyi to thank him for the defense of the Kiev region and other “historic battles.”
“But we must move faster and write a new chapter that corrects all previous mistakes,” he added.
Fedorov, 35, was only appointed defense minister in January, but has been widely praised for using data to analyze and try to improve performance on the front lines.
A former Minister of Digital Transformation, he was active from the beginning of the full-scale invasion, including creating the volunteer ‘Ukrainian IT Force’ to carry out cyber attacks against Russia.
He later led a successful fundraising campaign called Army of Drones and designed a system that introduced “gamification” elements to warfare, giving the Ukrainian military credit for attacks on Russian assets.
Syrskyi has so far not commented publicly on the latest developments.
On Monday, he wrote a comment on the Militarny website and said about his relationship with Fedorov: “I perceived our relationship as a working relationship.”
“If I have offended anyone, Mikhailo Albertovich (Fedorov), I am sorry.”
Commenting on protests in several Ukrainian cities, the general wrote that the issues of military contracts, procurement and mobilization, currently reported in the media and summarized in the terse slogans of protesters, are much more complex than most people think.
He said, “Decisions on which people’s lives depend are not made with slogans.” “Real works, not surrounding public dramas, win the war,” Syrskyi wrote.
