Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, announced Sunday night that he was replacing their defense minister after a flurry of reports of graft and financial mismanagement.
- Official corruption was a topic that had been mostly taboo throughout the first year of the war, as Ukrainians rallied around their government in a fight for national survival.
- Ukraine’s recent flurry of anti-corruption initiatives includes a proposal to use martial law powers to punish corruption as treason.
Oleksii Reznikov, who resigned officially Monday morning, has not personally been implicated in the allegations but investigations at his ministry posed a challenge to Ukraine since the start of the war with Russia.