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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Phillip Inman

Zelenskiy’s reforms were too slow for us, but too fast for Putin

Zelenskiy addressing the Ukrainian parliament in December last year.
Zelenskiy addressing the Ukrainian parliament in December last year. Photograph: Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA

Ukraine’s president. Volodymyr Zelenskiy, came under pressure to tackle corruption from the moment he was elected in April 2019.

His government was on its knees financially after a series of scandals that had seen the country’s biggest bank collapse following allegations of looting. Soon after, it was nationalised.

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