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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Sam Kiley

Ukraine’s corruption scandal is disastrous for Zelensky – Putin will love it

The presidential palace in Kyiv is roiling. Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, has resigned as his office and home were raided by anti-corruption police and detectives on the trail of a €100m fraud.

The racket, which has already claimed the political heads of two ministers and sent a former business partner and close friend of Zelensky into exile and on the run outside the war-torn nation, is a strategic blow.

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