General takes on Zelensky - and demands more soldiers in the war against Russia. Valery Zalushnyj wants to call up 500,000 people - and is only serious rival of the president.

The required mass mobilization has long been a source of tension between him and the Ukrainian president. Now the commander-in-chief is set to be fired, a move that Oleksiy Honcharenko fears will “harm the morale of society,” although it is unlikely to have any impact on the battlefield.