Ukraine's security service accuses senior officials of trying to steal about $40m in an order for mortar shells.

Ukraine’s security service says it has uncovered corruption in an arms purchase by the military worth about $40m (£31m).

The SBU said five senior people in the defence ministry and at an arms supplier were being investigated.

It said the defence officials signed a contract for 100,000 mortar shells in August 2022.

Payment was made in advance, with some funds transferred abroad, but no arms were ever provided.

Corruption has been a major stumbling block in Ukraine’s bid to join the European Union.

The SBU said an investigation had “exposed” officials of the ministry of defence and managers of arms supplier Lviv Arsenal, “who stole nearly 1.5 billion hryvnias in the purchase of shells”.

  • @Viking_HippieEnglish
    -11•10 months ago

    All of those opposition parties banned have explicitly been in favor of Russia annexing Ukraine. Literally every one.

    That’s not true. One pro-russian co-founder of the biggest opposition party was expelled and they publicly condemned Putin’s invasion. Zelinski still banned the party.

    There has been a ton of parliamentary agreement

    Amongst his and other corrupt right wing parties glad to be unopposed

    upheld in numerous appeals (incl by judges not having any associations with Zelensky).

    This the same Ukrainian court system that was notorious for immense corruption up to and including the day before the invasion?

    I’m by no means a “Zelensky-stan”

    Then why are you repeating the untrue talking points of him and his government?

    You are seriously being misled or are being malicious/spreading misinformation.

    Nope, you’ve got that backwards.

    Ukraine runs a parliamentary government. There is no “opposition party”.

    There absolutely is. Just because there is a parliament doesn’t mean that it’s all one party or that there are no parties.

    Americans for some reason always view foreign government political parties through the lens of American politics.

    I’m a Dane. Here in Denmark we have a parliamentary government too. We ABSOLUTELY have opposition parties.

    This is not like the government banning Republicans.

    No, this is more like the UK Tories Banning Labour, the Lib Dems and all other parties to the left of them.

    This is like banning the “Socialists for the release of Alaska to Russia” party.

    Again with regurgitating the untrue government propaganda 🙄

    • @[email protected]English
      7•10 months ago

      That’s not true. One pro-russian co-founder of the biggest opposition party was expelled and they publicly condemned Putin’s invasion. Zelinski still banned the party.

      Okay. I’ll bite. Which party?

    • @[email protected]English
      -2•10 months ago

      Hilarious to think that Parliamentary democracies don’t have oppositions, the only difference is that it’s usually a coalition or several rather than a single party. You don’t deserve those downvotes, but Ukraine is apparantly beyond criticism.