At a time when Russia’s onslaught has made Western support an existential issue for Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has responded quickly to allegations of corruption, dismissing top officials in the biggest reshuffle since the full-scale invasion a year ago. Does it portend real change?
Corruption investigations and personnel shakeups came in the build-up to a top-level EU visit to Kyiv for a summit on Feb. 3. It is unlikely that this was a mere coincidence.
Feb 04, 2023 -
No one could say that Ukraine was some kind of ideal state before Russia launched its invasion last year, said Reinhard Vese in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
As Ukraine makes small gains in Transparency International’s corruption rankings, experts analyze what’s working well and where the challenges lie in the state anti-corruption architecture.