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Ukraine investigates corruption in medical exemptions from military duty

New Ukrainian army recruits take part in a military exercise conducted by a foreign instructor in the eastern Donetsk region, Ukraine, in March 2023 [File: Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters]

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called out what he described as systematic corruption in the country’s medical exemptions from service in the armed forces, saying the system was subject to widespread bribe-taking and the flight of people overseas.

Zelenskyy said that bribes of between $3,000 to $15,000 had been paid for medical exemptions from military duty.

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