Zelensky vows energy sector overhaul
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Ukraine has been rocked by a $100 million corruption scandal that implicates current and former government officials.
The revelations are a remarkable reversal for the Ukrainian president, who once presented himself as a leader who would clean up the country’s politics.
When Vladimir Putin first started targeting the Ukrainian energy sector, it did not have the impact the Kremlin wanted. Ukraine’s ability to withstand the Russian campaign, and carefully ration its power supplies,
Zelensky signed a decree to sanction his associate Timur Mindich and businessman Oleksandr Tsukerman, who are implicated in a $100 million corruption scandal centered on the state-owned nuclear power company Energoatom (Enerhoatom).
A scandal, involving kickbacks at Ukraine’s state nuclear power company, has revived concerns about European money being siphoned off by graft instead of helping fight Russia.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky visits Paris on Monday in a new bid to secure weaponry to defend his country against increasingly lethal Russian missile and drone attacks. Ukraine has said it plans to use more than 4.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday ordered sanctions on a former business partner at the heart of a corruption scandal that has sparked outrage in a nation exhausted by nearly four years of war.
The announcement came after Ukraine’s anti-corruption agency said it detained five people and identified seven other suspects in a major graft investigation involving alleged kickbacks worth around $100 million in the energy sector.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to sign deals in Paris on Monday with France for air-defence systems, warplanes and missiles, aiming to strengthen Kyiv’s long-term war effort. He
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