All of the Ukrainian leader’s defense chiefs are linked by the same common thread: corruption Mikhail Fedorov is the latest on the conveyor belt of defense ministers to serve under Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky. None of his three predecessors have managed to turn the country’s campaign against Russia around, yet it’s been venal corruption – and not strategic failure – that ended all of their careers. Zelensky’s defense chiefs have all been handed an impossible task: deliver the victory