Zelenskiy Fires Top Military Draft Officers in Anti-Graft Push

  • Ukraine to replace draft officers with war-seasoned veterans
  • Investigators started 112 probes into recuitment graft

Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a video statment.

Source: Ukrainian President Office

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy dismissed all regional heads of military recruitment in his country to root out corruption as he seeks to maintain morale in the face of a grinding counteroffensive against the Russian army.

“Only people who know precisely what war is, and why cynicism and bribery in wartime is treason, should run this system,” Zelenskiy said in a video statement on Telegram.