Anonymous ID: 7255a6 Jan. 23, 2023, 5:41 p.m. No.18206543   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6672 >>6926 >>7065 >>7141

https://www.politico.eu/article/defense-minister-reznikov-ukraine-corruption-probe-war-russia-zelenskyy/

Defense minister Reznikov under fire as corruption probes rock Ukraine

The deputy infrastructure minister has been fired, and the defense ministry is facing the heat over a military catering contract.

Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov — one of the most prominent faces of the war against Russia — is now under fire on the home front as investigations into government corruption rocked the country over the weekend.

Kyiv’s officials have been at pains over the course of the war to attempt to show that the nation is pulling together and cleaning up its act on corruption in a bid to chart a course toward the EU, so the revelations of two probes into top-level graft have come as a severe blow.

Both of the inquiries are related to war profiteering, and triggered an immediate pledge of action from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday night. The case involving the defense ministry involved purchases of military rations at inflated prices — a topic that has snowballed into top news in Kyiv. Almost simultaneously, the deputy infrastructure minister was fired in a case linked to an overpriced public purchase of electrical generators. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine said it was investigating both matters.

Anonymous ID: 7255a6 Jan. 23, 2023, 5:44 p.m. No.18206567   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6575

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/20/us-russia-wagner-group-transnational-criminal-organization

US to designate Russia’s Wagner Group as ‘transnational criminal organization’

US will apply designation in the coming days, says national security council spokesman, imposing new sanctions on the group