Zelensky government shake up aims to end Istanbul talks
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🗓️ 19 July 2025
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Zelensky government shake up aims to end Istanbul talks
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's do a video on what is happening in the Zelensky administration. |
| 0:07.1 | We have a very big reshuffling in his administration. |
| 0:12.8 | He has extended martial law, or the parliament has extended martial law, however you want to look at it. |
| 0:19.0 | And he has decided after the extension of martial law, which will keep him in power for another |
| 0:24.7 | three, three months or so longer without an election, he has decided to shuffle the cabinet, |
| 0:32.8 | the prime minister. |
| 0:34.6 | Schmeagel looks like he will be moving to the Defense Ministry, and he has promoted |
| 0:40.5 | Scribidenko, who was, she was, I believe, the deputy prime minister, but she was also the |
| 0:50.3 | economics minister. |
| 0:51.3 | She was the person who negotiated the brilliant rare earth minerals |
| 0:56.6 | deal with the Trump White House. She is a Yermak loyalist, very close to Yermak, 100% devoted to |
| 1:05.8 | Zolensky's entertainment lawyer and the person that many people say is really running the show |
| 1:10.4 | in Kiev. |
| 1:11.6 | Anyway, she is now the prime minister. |
| 1:15.0 | And who else? |
| 1:16.4 | And Umerov, the defense minister, looks like he is heading to Washington, D.C., to be the ambassador to the United States because the other ambassador to the United States, |
| 1:25.4 | she is being blamed for the disastrous White House meltdown when Zelensky was last in D.C. |
| 1:32.7 | And got into the argument with Trump advance. |
| 1:34.2 | Anyway, your thoughts on this big cabinet Zeletsky administration reshuffling. |
| 1:40.9 | Yeah, I mean, the key story here is Umarv's banishment, basically to Washington. I mean, |
| 1:46.8 | blaming the ambassador for Zelensky's own behavior in February. We shouldn't, we shouldn't |
| 1:58.1 | let ourselves be fooled by this. What is happening is that Yermak is tightening |
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