In the fight against Russia, Ukraine has got a lot of support from many countries including Britain, America. Military aid worth crores of dollars has been received so far.
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Corruption has emerged as a major challenge in front of Ukraine fighting against Russia. For the past few days, President of Ukraine Zelensky has been taking resignations from those leaders and officials who have been accused of corruption. In this series, Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister Yacheslav Shapovalov and Ukraine’s Deputy Head of the Presidential Office, Kirillo Temoshenkova, resigned on Wednesday. The names of these two people came to the fore in the corruption related to the purchase of food for the army.
The war between Russia and Ukraine has been going on for 11 months. Neither Ukraine is ready to back down nor Russia is ready to listen to anything in the war so far. In the fight against Russia, Ukraine has got a lot of support from many countries including Britain, America. Military aid worth crores of dollars has been received so far. In the midst of military aid worth millions of dollars, the Deputy Defense Minister was accused of corruption and now he has to resign.
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The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has also issued a statement on the resignation of Yacheslav Shapovalov. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry described the resignation as an honorable act and said that the deputy defense minister’s resignation would help maintain confidence in the ministry. Local media reported that Yacheslav Shapovalov’s name was included in food supplies for the army. It came to light in a procurement scam in which food contracts were signed at allegedly inflated prices.
asked to step down by the President
On the other hand, Kirillo Temoshenkova, deputy head of the Ukraine President’s Office, said that she was asked to step down by the President. Tymoshenko’s name came to the fore in September last year for embezzling aid purchases worth more than $7 million for Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhya region. In this embezzlement, the names of many other officials of Ukraine came to the fore. Before the resignation of these two people, two deputy ministers of the Ministry of Community and Territory Development of Ukraine also had to leave their posts. Negoda and Ivan Lukerya informed about their resignations on Facebook.
Five regional governors were also removed
At the same time, the Prosecutor General’s Office has been told that Ukraine’s Deputy Prosecutor General Oleksiy Simonenko has also been removed from his post. Simonenko’s name came into limelight after coming in a scandal related to holidays in Spain. Along with this, five regional governors of Ukraine have also been dismissed after the President’s order. The governors of the regions that have been dismissed include the regions of Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy, Zaporizhia and Kherson, as well as the region around the capital Kyiv.
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