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Since the inception of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine in February last year the Ukrainian government under Zelenskiy have been vowed to fight corruption in Ukraine.
The fight against corruption has made the Ukrainian anti-corruption agency to invade the homes of senior government officials who were suspected to be corrupt and most of them are facing trials and jail terms in the warring state.
For me this fight against corruption means that the Ukrainian government are fighting war from two fronts: the military offensive and counteroffensive front and the corruption front.
This on its own has the tendency to reduce the fervency and concentration of the Ukrainian government on the Russian war due to the presence of traitors within the government.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a television interview shared on his Telegram channel on Sunday that he would ask parliament in the coming week to increase penalties for those found guilty of corruption during wartime.
"I have set a task for the legislation and the Ukrainian legislators will be offered my proposals to equate corruption with high treason in wartime," he said.
"I think the parliament will get it in the next week and then the ball is in the parliament's court," he added.
Zelenskiy, who says ending graft is key to defeating Russia, also hopes that by fighting corruption he will make it easier for partners to support rebuilding efforts that will cost billions of dollars.
A series of government shake-ups over corruption included Zelenskiy's dismissal this month of all the regional military recruitment chiefs after a nationwide audit.
Ukraine ranks 116th out of 180 countries on campaign group Transparency International's latest Corruption Perception Index.
Zelenskiy, who says ending graft is key to defeating Russia, also hopes that by fighting corruption he will make it easier for partners to support rebuilding efforts that will cost billions of dollars.
A series of government shake-ups over corruption included Zelenskiy's dismissal this month of all the regional military recruitment chiefs after a nationwide audit.
Ukraine ranks 116th out of 180 countries on campaign group Transparency International's latest Corruption Perceptions.
One of the assurance given by Zelenskiy is that those found guilty will face justice and be put behind bars for the crimes they committed against the Ukrainian government and people.
“The head of the Supreme Court has been detained,” Oleksandr Omelchenko, a prosecutor with Ukraine’s Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO), told reporters in Kyiv.
The anti-corruption chief describes this case as the biggest involving a judiciary in Ukraine, although the case has a second of which the head of supreme court refused to mention the second person.
Kryvonos likened a group of judges within the Supreme Court who were implicated in the probe to a “criminal group”.Source
In May this year, we saw another efforts to fight corruption by the Zelenskiy government when the head of Supreme Court was arrested and detained by Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO)
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