For the second consecutive day, Ukrainians are on the streets — in Kyiv, Lviv, Rivne, Odesa, Dnipro, Poltava, Mykolaïv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Zaporizhzhia, Kropyvnytskyi, Cherkasy, and in the diaspora. On 14 July, Ukraine's parliament voted to dismiss the entire government of Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko. Among those who went with it was Mykhailo Fedorov — until January 2026 Ukraine's Minister of Digital Transformation, then its Defence Minister, and in both roles the principal (…)

Le limogeage du ministre de la Défense Mykhaïlo Fedorov a déclenché le 16 juillet 2026 des manifestations en carton dans plusieurs villes ukrainiennes — reprenant la forme symbolique des protestations anticorruption de juillet 2025. Ces protestations s'appuyaient elles-mêmes sur une résistance plus ancienne : depuis 2022, le Parlement a adopté une série de réformes du droit du travail suspendant les conventions collectives, introduisant des contrats zéro heure et affaiblissant les droits (…)

The dismissal of Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov triggered cardboard-sign protests across several Ukrainian cities on 16 July 2026 — reviving the symbolic form of the July 2025 anti-corruption mobilisations. Those protests themselves built on longer-running resistance: from 2022, parliament passed a series of labour reforms that suspended collective agreements, introduced zero-hours contracts, weakened trade union rights and allowed employers to modify employment terms unilaterally — all (…)