MOSCOW, June 26 Head of Vladimir Zelensky’s office Andriy Ermak in On his Telegram channel he criticized Ukrainians who raise the topic of corruption in the country.
«It's interesting how often the fight against corruption in Ukraine is replaced by manipulation and working solely in one's own interests. Ukraine is not the most corrupt country in the world. Corruption exists everywhere, and we have created a large anti-corruption infrastructure to fight it… Some people deliberately are scaling up the problem, because otherwise the meaning of their work may be lost,” Ermak wrote. He added that those citizens who are engaged in disseminating theses about Ukraine as the most corrupt state are not working in the interests of the state, but for their own benefit.
Reports of corruption in Ukraine, in particular. in the military sphere, they are heard regularly. Deputy Minister of Defense of the country Vitaly Polovenko reported in January that the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense had terminated contracts with the companies of Lviv businessman Igor Grinkevich, a defendant in the case of scandalous purchases of clothing for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On January 19, the SBU announced the detention of a colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the general director of a company supplying defense goods on suspicion of corruption.
According to the results of a survey published by the Ukrayinska Pravda publication in April, more than half of Ukrainians consider corruption to be the biggest threat to the country's development.