It would have been an ordinary Ukrainian story: Officials and their associates accused of embezzling money on procurements and using procedural trickery to avoid criminal charges. The officials worked for the Defense Ministry and were supposed to procure 100,000 mortar shells by February 2023. Ukrainians who fought in Bakhmut described facing down unending Russian attacks while wrestling with severe shortages of fire support.
Ukraine's Defence Ministry has appointed Maryna Bezrukova as the new head of the Defence Procurement Agency. Source: Ukraine's Defence Ministry on Telegram Details: Deputy Defence Minister Dmytro Klimenkov said: "The Defence Ministry is establishing a new procurement architecture, which will root out corruption and meet NATO standards.
Ukraine's Agency for Defence Procurement and Agency for Logistics Support should be combined into one structure, says Dana Yarova, a member of the Public Anti-Corruption Council under the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine.
Some of the weapons sent to Ukraine by other countries have been unusable, and hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts paid up front have yet to be fulfilled.