\u201cIn the most difficult times, our strength is unity. Clearing any corruption in any government institution is a matter of dignity for our government. We bear responsibility before our defenders,\u201d Svyrydenko added.<\/p>\n
As the scandal mushroomed this week, Kyiv announced high-profile resignations, sanctions against Zelenskyy\u2019s former business partner, a major audit and a reshuffle in the state energy companies, aiming to show Ukraine can effectively clean house.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no room for impunity, whether you\u2019re close or not close ally to someone,\u201d Olga Stefanishyna, Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S., told NBC News<\/a> on Thursday evening. \u201cIt\u2019s not a nice thing, but also never in Ukraine\u2019s history have we experienced that, and that means some things we created are really working.\u201d<\/p>\n The corruption scandal rocked Kyiv at an awkward moment, as Ukraine is urging EU partners<\/a> to take a huge risk and agree on a \u20ac140 billion reparation loan taken from seized Russian assets.<\/p>\n It needs financial assistance to survive likely the harshest winter<\/a> since the start of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion in 2022. And allies who still want to back Kyiv also want answers<\/a> on corruption.<\/p>\n \u201cThe president was very clear: For him, there is no such thing as an untouchable person involved in corruption or crime. He\u2019s a very principled person. First of all, he himself is not corrupt,\u201d Zelenskyy\u2019s top adviser, Andriy Yermak, said in an interview with the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network, of which POLITICO is a part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIn the most difficult times, our strength is unity. Clearing any corruption in any government institution is a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[24605,2575,2000,299,805,657,2601,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-570247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-andriy-yermak","9":"tag-corruption","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-foreign-policy","13":"tag-ukraine","14":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","15":"tag-war","16":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115549152532041368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}