A number of Ukrainian officers have been dismissed or abnegated over the last four days amid corruption allegations as Ukraine’s chairman, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, attempts to take a zero- forbearance approach to the issue. Fifteen elderly officers have left their posts since Saturday, six of whom have had allegations levelled at them by intelligencers and Ukraine’s Anti-corruption authorities. The surge of changes started on Saturday when Ukraine’s deputy minister of structure, Vasyl Lozinskyi, was detained by anti-corruption investigators and dismissed from his post. It’s led to some politicians in the US calling for aid to Ukraine to be confined.
President Volodymyr Zelensky is trying to snappily restore public faith, but the allegations are serious, and the timing is bad. Several claims have surfaced thanks to Mykhaylo Tkach, an investigative intelligencer for the news website Ukrayinska Pravda. He has lately reported that the company of a elderly functionary’s particular coach allegedly entered millions of pounds since the full- scale corruption, as well as a story about President Zelensky’s deputy head of office. Kyrylo Tymoshenko quit two months after Tkach reported that he would move his family to the manse of a well- known property inventor. The intelligencer also published footage which appeared to show the sanctioned driving of a precious Porsche for many months.
Ever since Ukraine declared independence 31 years ago, corruption has agonised its public services and utmost of all its politics. In 2014, a popular revolution toppled the last Moscow- leaning government because people wanted to eventually live under a republic. Ever since, Ukraine has tried a series of reforms, especially driven by Russia’s posterior crusade of aggression towards the country. Change was seen as essential to securing the West’s continued support. New Anti-corruption agencies were also set up, along with new systems for government spending, a new police force, and politicians were forced to expose their wealth frequently with eye- soddening admissions.
“We wanted results,” Yaroslav Yurchyshyn tells me. He is an MP and deputy head of the administrative anticorruption commission. ” Yes, we’ve left some corruption in history, but at least now we aren’t silent about it. The coming stop will be forestallment”. The deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential administration, who was recorded by intelligencers driving an auto belonging to prominent Ukrainian businessmen, has also denied any wrongdoing. Pavlo Halimon, the deputy head of Zelenskiy’s political party, has not reflected on recent substantiation presented by intelligencers that he bought a house in Kyiv above his means.