The “Flying BMP”: Ukraine’s New Commander and the Fight to Remake an Army

Ukraine just forced out its top general in the largest protests of the war — and replaced him with a 43-year-old tank commander they call “The Flying BMP.”

In this episode we go inside the crisis that made Mykhailo Drapatyi commander-in-chief: the reshuffle that dropped reformist defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov, the street revolt that followed, and the clash of two visions for how Ukraine fights. We trace Drapatyi’s record of owning failures in public, the reform agenda he inherits, the drone numbers that explain the whole argument, and the corps reform and manpower problems no reputation can fix. Then we ask what to watch next.

Slow journalism. We read everything. We rush nothing.


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