{"id":92484,"date":"2026-08-19T14:45:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/sacked-ukrainian-defence-minister-calls-for-presidential-election-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:45:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:45:47","slug":"sacked-ukrainian-defence-minister-calls-for-presidential-election-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/sacked-ukrainian-defence-minister-calls-for-presidential-election-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacked Ukrainian defence minister calls for presidential election | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ukrainian defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov has called for wartime elections, in what is widely seen as the biggest challenge <!--more--> to Volodymyr Zelensky&#8217;s presidency since Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion four and a half years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Since the war broke out in 2022 Ukraine has been under martial law, which means elections are suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Fedorov, who did not mention Zelensky by name in the video, was unexpectedly fired from his role as defence minister last month, just six months after his appointment.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky is yet to respond to the video from Fedorov.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#Ukraine #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ukrainian defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov has called for wartime elections, in what is widely seen as the biggest challenge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}