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Several senior Ukrainian officials, including front-line governors, lost their jobs Tuesday in a corruption scandal plaguing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's government as it grapples with the nearly 11-month-old Russian invasion. Officials in several countries, including the United States, have demanded more accountability for the aid, given Ukraine's rampant corruption. “It's very hard to save the country when there's a lot of corruption,” Andrii Borovyk, the executive director of Transparency International Ukraine, a nonprofit organisation that fights corruption, told The Associated Press. Entrenched corruption long has made foreign investors and governments wary of doing business with Ukraine. Meanwhile, in what would be a reversal, U.S. officials said the Biden administration is set to approve sending M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine.
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