There’s been a serious shake-up in the upper echelons of the Ukrainian government this week, reaching all the way to the office of Volodymyr Zelenskyyyyy. (Or however many y’s we’re supposed to be using this week.) At least four high-ranking officials in Kyiv have either resigned or been dismissed amidst an ongoing corruption investigation that somehow has failed to generate a lot of headlines in the United States. The people involved have mostly been accused of lining their own pockets with money that should have gone to aid the public during the war. Of course, if you read the way the Associated Press covered this story, you would think that Zelensky himself was the anti-corruption crusader rooting all of these rats out of their hiding places. But does that really sound very plausible?Read More
Say it ain’t so. A corruption scandal in Ukraine
