In a move that turns the instruments of state power inward, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has imposed formal sanctions on a former member of his own press office — a rare and telling gesture that suggests whatever rift emerged between them was deemed too serious for quiet resolution. Sanctions, typically reserved for foreign adversaries and hostile actors, carry a weight that ordinary dismissals do not, and their deployment here signals that the presidential office crossed a deliberate threshold. The details remain obscured, but the act itself speaks: in wartime, the boundaries betwe