{"id":30408,"date":"2026-08-19T11:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/30408\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T11:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:58:08","slug":"zelenskys-office-faces-corruption-probe-in-ukraine-as-fired-minister-demands-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/30408\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky\u2019s office faces corruption probe in Ukraine as fired minister demands elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies announced on Wednesday that they were investigating senior officials in President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s office, a day after the country\u2019s recently fired defence minister called for national elections despite the ongoing fight against Russia\u2019s invasion.<\/p>\n

The political drama was an unwelcome distraction for Zelensky as Ukraine\u2019s war with its bigger neighbour stretches into its fifth year.<\/p>\n

Investigators are conducting an operation to expose a criminal organisation allegedly led by a sitting and a former lawmaker, involving senior officials from the presidential office and other individuals, according to a joint statement from Ukraine\u2019s National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Further details would be released later, the agencies said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n

The revelation brought another test of Zelensky\u2019s political resilience as he remains dogged by high-level corruption investigations.<\/p>\n

\"Ukraine\u2019sUkraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelensky (right) and chief of staff Andriy Yermak in November 2025. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n

Last year, his chief of staff Andriy Yermak resigned and was later named as a suspect in a major corruption probe involving a luxury construction project in the biggest threat to Zelensky\u2019s government since Russia\u2019s invasion in February 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies announced on Wednesday that they were investigating senior officials in President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s office, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7635,6852,1138,6604,426,31,7336,1039,38,3176,10929,25,10928,26,152],"class_list":["post-30408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-andriy-yermak","tag-bashkortostan","tag-black-sea","tag-chornomorsk","tag-crimea","tag-european-union","tag-general-oleksandr-syrskyi","tag-kherson","tag-moscow","tag-mykhailo-fedorov","tag-national-anti-corruption-bureau","tag-russia","tag-ufa","tag-ukraine","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}