00:00Ukraine appears to be slowly losing the war against Russia,
00:04according to ousted Defense Minister Mikhailo Fedorov.
00:08In an interview with Reuters, he warned that Kiev has only a window of several months
00:13to make key decisions and turn the war in its favor.
00:18The 35-year-old said Ukraine lacks an overall vision for how to win the four-year-old conflict
00:23and is being held back by a failure to innovate.
00:25He also blamed entrenched corruption, patronage networks and a lack of political independence in government institutions.
00:33Fedorov said Ukraine still has every chance to win but urgently needs a plan to end the war.
00:39Ukraine's presidential office pushed back against his comments,
00:42saying Fedorov had been positive about the war when he was in government
00:46and that the only thing that had changed was his personal status.
00:50Fedorov was dismissed six months ago after taking office,
00:54after launching reforms to procurement and mobilization that put him at odds
00:58with the military establishment and political rivals.
01:01Last week, he further rocked Ukrainian politics by becoming the first major political figure
01:06to call for wartime elections, warning of a systemic crisis of governance.
01:11Iranian politics by railing elections.
01:11Let's go.
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