Ukrainian Leader Backs Calamitous Reshuffle to Deliver Results

  • Zelenskiy says in interview that officials had underperformed
  • Investors unnerved as politicians from country’s past return
Volodymyr ZelenskiyPhotographer: Alexey Furman/Bloomberg
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy defended a cabinet reshuffle that unnerved investors and dismayed voters who’d backed him to clean up the country’s notoriously murky post-Soviet politics.

The revamp swapped young newcomers picked to sever ties with the past for experienced hands whose task is to revive stuttering reforms.