Ukraine dismissed the governors of five battlefield provinces and an array of other senior officials on Tuesday in the biggest shake-up of its wartime leadership since Russia's invasion in 2022.
Separately on Tuesday, a long-awaited decision on whether allies could send German-made heavy tanks to Ukraine finally reached Berlin, after Poland said it formally sent its request.
Among over a dozen senior Ukrainian officials who resigned or were dismissed were the governors of the Kyiv, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions. All five regions have been major battlefields over the past year, giving their governors an unusually high profile.
Deputy Defence Minister Vyacheslav Shapovalov, the deputy head of the presidential administration Kyrylo Tymoshenko and deputy prosecutor-general Oleksiy Symonenko were also among the top officials who stood down.
Ukraine has a history of endemic corruption, including among the political elite, but efforts to stamp out graft have been overshadowed by Moscow's full-scale war that began in February.
Transparency International ranked Ukraine 122 out of 180 in its corruption ranking for 2021.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة January 25, 2023 من The Straits Times.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة January 25, 2023 من The Straits Times.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
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