Any government that is replaced after six months is a government that has failed.

For Ukraine’s people and its Western partners, especially the United States which has contributed hundreds of millions of dollars in the development of civil society, it is but another disappointment after its electorate delivered a stunning mandate for change in both presidential and parliamentary elections.

The blame is both President Volodymyr Zelensky’s and his recently fired chief of staff Andriy Bohdan, who convinced him to appoint a young cabinet of new faces who would symbolize transformative generational change.

But rather then appointing capable and proven ministers who would be required to introduce new values and administer reconstituted ministries, Bohdan prevailed over a president with no previous governing experience. He forced him to acquiesce to an outdated Soviet-type centralized governing model, which, despite electoral promises to change the method of governing, could not, in post-election expectation euphoria, escape the appearance of a continuation of the old ways.