Ukrainian President takes tough line as country is appealing for more Western military support
In addition to the departure of Kyrylo Tymoshenko – one of the most prominent faces inside Mr. Zelensky’s administration – deputy defence minister Vyacheslav Shapovalov and deputy prosecutor-general Oleksiy Symonenko submitted their resignations. Three other deputy ministers were dismissed, and the military governors of the Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy and Kherson regions were also replaced.
In a Monday night video address, Mr. Zelensky offered only an oblique explanation for the personnel moves he said would come on Tuesday. “Ukraine will not show weakness. The state will not show weakness.” The departure of Mr. Tymoshenko, who was in charge of communications for Mr. Zelensky’s office, and worked on his 2019 election campaign, was the most unexpected. The 33-year-old had been criticized online for living a flashy lifestyle – residing in what the Ukrainian media has described as a “mansion” and driving a Porsche sports car around Kyiv – while the country is at war.
“The one to apologize should be the Ministry of Defense headed by Oleksiy Reznikov: during the great war it seems to have increased its appetite for embezzlement,” Yurii Nikolov, the journalist who broke the story, wrote in a follow-up piece on Tuesday. He noted that former defence minister Yurii Yekhanurov had resigned over a near-identical scandal in 2009 over curiously priced purchases by the ministry.
Mr. Symonenko, the deputy prosecutor, was forced to quit after the Ukrainska Pravda website revealed that the 46-year-old had taken a holiday in Spain in December and January. Under the state of martial law that the country has been under since the start of the war, all Ukrainian males between the ages of 18 and 60 are prohibited from leaving the country unless a special exemption is granted.
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