by ZeroHedge News Staff at ZeroHedge
Update (1120ET): Ukrainian President Zelenskiy confirmed the dismissal of two key ministers and deployed personal sanctions on his former business partner as the corruption scandal in the country’s energy sector widens.
“It is absolutely unacceptable that, amid all this, there are also some schemes in the energy sector,” Zelenskiy posted on X.
Justice Minister German Galushchenko was suspended from his post earlier on Wednesday amid the probe, but more officials are falling…
5 / Today, Svitlana Grinchuk, a young Ukrainian minister of energy, submitted her resignation letter following the President Zelensky demand to her and her “curator” Herman Galushchenko, a minister of justice, who is involved into a $100 million EnergoAtom corruption scheme, to… pic.twitter.com/4eIzYUKmrx
— Viktor Kovalenko (@MrKovalenko) November 12, 2025
Western mainstream media almost immediately launched into damage control, with one op-ed in Bloomberg trying its best to say it’s not at all Ukraine’s fault, but is actually somehow… the Kremlin behind it(!). Here’s how it begins:
There are at least two legitimate responses to allegations that a group of highly placed Ukrainian officials have skimmed $100 million from contracts to repair and protect their nation’s critical energy infrastructure, even as Russian attacks plunge the nation into darkness and cold. One is to despair, the other to celebrate. The second, strange as it may sound, is more logical.
This episode goes to the heart of why Ukrainians are fighting at all. The war began in 2014, after then President Viktor Yanukovych was toppled by mass protests against the epic scale of his corruption and the captivity to Moscow this created. Graft was the glue with which the Kremlin had held…
So even with high officials in Zelensky’s government are caught red-handed by a Ukrainian internal investigation, the ultimate fault lies in Moscow, according to some MSM accounts.
It must be remembered that a very short few months ago Zelensky himself found himself at the center of EU pushback and controversy when he attempted to eliminate NABU’s independence, sparking outrage in Brussels some sectors of the Ukrainian populace.
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As Remix News detailed earlier, in yet another sign of the rampant corruption in Ukraine,…
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