How Much More Will D.C. Spend Bankrolling Ukraine Corruption?

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How Much More Will D.C. Spend Bankrolling Ukraine Corruption?
Tristan Justice
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The Ukrainian regime run by President Volodymyr Zelensky is still saturated with corruption as the war-torn nation looks to American taxpayers for additional life support.

On Monday, Time Magazine published a feature on Zelensky’s “Struggle to Keep Ukraine in the Fight,” detailing the alleged challenges faced by the Ukrainian president after 20 months of war. This includes waning Western support for funding the endless effort and rampant corruption within the Ukrainian state. A majority of Americans oppose sending more U.S. tax dollars to Ukraine, according to a CNN poll in August.

“With the outbreak of war in Israel, even keeping the world’s attention on Ukraine has become a major challenge,” Time Magazine lamented. Ukrainians are reportedly also running out of manpower as government corruption erodes confidence in the regime among both potential military recruits and the West.

“Now recruitment is way down,” according to Time. “As conscription efforts have intensified around the country, stories are spreading on social media of draft officers pulling men off trains and buses and sending them to the front. Those with means sometimes bribe their way out of service, often by paying for a medical exemption.”

Reportedly in response to this type of widespread corruption, “Zelensky fired the heads of the draft offices in every region of the country” over the summer.

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Zelenskyy aide on corruption in Ukraine: 'People are stealing like there's no tomorrow'
One aide said officials were told, 'Don’t buy anything. Don’t take any vacations. Just sit at your desk, be quiet, and work,' to avoid seeming corrupt
By Alexander Hall - Fox News
Published October 30, 2023 6:40pm EDT

An advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the government has suffered "reputational damage" on the world stage for its sluggish efforts to battle corruption.

TIME senior correspondent Simon Shuster wrote about his experience following Zelenskyy and his team back to Ukraine after they visited the U.S. in September to appeal for aid, noting in Washington they had faced "insistent calls for Zelensky to fight corruption inside his own government, and the fading enthusiasm for a war with no end in sight."

Shuster reported that similarly grim sentiment appears among the public as well, as those with the money available "sometimes bribe their way out of service" and that such cases "became so widespread by the end of the summer that on Aug. 11 Zelensky fired the heads of the draft offices in every region of the country." ...

"Don’t buy anything. Don’t take any vacations. Just sit at your desk, be quiet, and work," one staffer said, summarizing how officials had been warned to not only avoid corruption, but even the appearance of personal enrichment. ...

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