President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for the dismissal of two cabinet ministers on Wednesday amid a probe into an alleged $100 million corruption scheme involving a former associate that has fueled fresh public anger at Kyiv’s wartime government.
Anti-corruption authorities said this week they had detained five people and identified two others still at large, suspected of involvement in the alleged plot to control procurement at nuclear agency Energoatom and other state enterprises.
Ukraine’s biggest wartime graft scandal comes as Kyiv’s outmanned and underequipped troops are struggling to fend off grinding Russian advances on the battlefield.
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