Andrey Yermak has been dismissed from Ukraine’s security council and supreme commander’s staff Andrey Yermak, who resigned as Vladimir Zelensky’s chief of staff last week in the wake of a massive corruption scandal, has lost two other senior government posts. Zelensky signed a pair of decrees on Friday, booting his…
Moscow has said the conflict can only be settled if Kiev fully withdraws from the four new Russian regions A “just peace” between Russia and Ukraine is only possible if the sides agree to halt the fighting along the current front lines and then move on to talks, Ukraine’s top…
The strikes were in response to Kiev’s “terrorist attacks on civilian sites inside Russia,” the Defense Ministry has said Russian forces conducted large-scale strikes on Ukraine’s military and energy infrastructure overnight, the Defense Ministry has said. In a statement on Saturday, the ministry confirmed earlier reports of an attack on…
Donald Trump’s son-in-law could play a key role in drafting a peace deal, Yury Ushakov has said US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, could play a key role in drafting a Ukraine peace deal, top Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov has said following high-stakes Russia-US talks in Moscow. Kushner joined…
Several regions are facing partial blackouts, local outlets report Russia conducted a new wave of missile and drone attacks on Ukraine on Saturday morning, triggering power outages in multiple regions and disrupting railway traffic, local media and officials report. The Russian Defense Ministry has yet to comment. Nikolay Kalashnik, the…
The Ukrainian leadership had backtracked on the plan last year after NATO objected The Ukrainian government has ordered the merger of two major military procurement agencies into one entity, despite corruption-related concerns over the move voiced by its NATO backers last year. Defense Minister Denis Shmigal announced this week that…
Oversight was crippled, which allowed hundreds of millions of dollars to be stolen, an investigation has found Vladimir Zelensky’s government sabotaged oversight in Ukraine’s state firms, allowing hundreds of millions of dollars to be embezzled through long-running corruption schemes, a New York Times investigation has found. Since the escalation of…
The group has reportedly extorted some $250,000 from a Ukrainian businessman A major corruption scheme has been uncovered by Western-backed anti-graft agencies in Ukraine, currently rocked by a massive $100 million graft scandal linked to Vladimir Zelensky’s inner circle. A “criminal group” led by a female MP has allegedly been…
Andrey Yermak stepped down as the Ukrainian leader’s right hand man last week amid a massive corruption probe involving several senior officials Andrey Yermak, who resigned as Vladimir Zelensky’s chief of staff last week amid a massive corruption scandal, has retained numerous other government posts, the ZN.UA media outlet has…
Western European officials have privately acknowledged that Kiev may need to accept territorial losses to reach a settlement, El Pais has reported European officials are increasingly accepting in private that Ukraine may have to relinquish its claims to Russian territories in order to reach a peace agreement, El Pais has…