Crime rates have plunged in Ukraine since the Russian invasion, largely due to a police crackdown on criminal gangs in the early days of the war, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.
Klymenko told Reuters that crime cases had dropped by up to 50% for some kinds of offences in the 13 months since Russia's full-scale invasion, although police have also recorded tens of thousands of war crime allegations against Russian troops.
