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True Nationalism is great at countering corruption because corrupt people are stains on the national pride. Stack on a war and it is, frankly, treasonous. If these attitudes can take hold then the culture of corruption can be extinguished. Ukraine will come out the other side of this much stronger than it went in.
to supply food to frontline troops at "two to three" times the regular price. 

Holy shit. Greed and stupidity got not boundaries. >

You would make that delivery for normal price? >

This is not about delivery to the front lines, or even about catering services. I'll edit this comment in a few with the link to a Ukrainian article.
Edit: This investigative piece shows that people have used the fact that military contracts have been removed from the public eye to overcharge the UA military using a shell company. 
The suggested solution is not to make all military contracts public again, but to publicize the price per item that is being paid. Knowing that 300,000 eggs were purchased for $100,000 could give some insights into troop deployments, but knowing that the military paid $0.33/egg is only useful to determine that they were ripped off.
It's a very good thing that Ukrainian society can report on traitorous corruption like this during a war. >

If only eggs were that cheap in the US. >

go to your largest neighbourhood poultry farm and see what kind of a deal you can get to purchase 300,000 eggs...you may be surprised at the savings >

My farmer market sells 18 fresh eggs for the low price of $20 >

Thats a great way to support your local farmer who has to pack up a vehicle, rent and setup a table for 4-6 hrs and break it all down again for profit.
Not really comparable to an industrial order. >

Looks like progress to me. >

If I remember correctly, this has been going on since before the invasion. Zelensky was elected in part due to voters' desire to clean house. >

Until the invasion he got a lot of criticism for not doing anything about it.
I have no idea if he was doing anything and it takes time to gather evidence or if he was just as bad until war forced him to do something. >

Probably helps that he has infinite political capital right now vs before the war >

Corrupt official:
Before the war: "heh, what do you think you can do to me, little actor. I have many friends who can ruin your political life as you know it".  
Now: "...shit". >

Very good point. Big Ze might have been frozen out before by the established corruption, now there's no chance and no one in that country will go against him. Dudes straight up Captain Ukraine, just needs a shield. >

He’s honestly got some shady stuff of his own, offshore accounts and whatnot. But he’s not actively siphoning or stealing money from Ukraine from what they can tell. Not great, but honestly probably just par for the course in a post-Soviet state. 
But when you’re in the spotlight of the world for the first time, and you’re getting significant amounts of foreign aid that you actively need to keep lobbying for; prob best to make sure things are on the up and up so they continue to do so. >

AFAIK, it became very normalised to have your money out-of-country if you had a lot of it - not so much for tax reasons, but because when things are that bad, how do you know your banker isn't going to run off with your money? 
Ukraine is still mired in very deep corruption (as most post-Soviet states other than the Baltics are), but it's slowly but surely getting better. >

There’s also very few people arguing it that aren’t also fervent defenders of the poster child for a corrupt state right next door. >

Good. Ukraine ridding itself of internal as well as external enemies. >

Pretty sure that this is part of the requirements for acceptance to NATO. >

Acceptance to the EU, certainly. This was spelled out, and fortunately Ukrainian civil society has the willingness to fight corruption. They just need supporters in the West to say "addressing corruption by investigating and charging bad actors will not lead to a reduction in support." >

A lot of folks are trying to spin this news a certain way:
"OMG Ukraine is corrupt, Zelenskyy is corrupt, we should stop throwing our money down a rat hole and just let the Russians take them over"
When they should be taking it this way:
"after decades of having Russian commerce, power, and organized crime inflicted upon them, Ukraine is working hard to clean up their vile influence, and separate themselves from it." >

How are you so sure of option2 lol.
Ukraine has been corrupt for a long time.
Speaking as a Eastern European so I’m like
Not shocked at all more like duhhhh >

Ukraine hasn't even been independent for a long time, let alone corrupt >

Since 91 and was second worse on corruption index in europe only Russia worse >

I know mate I'm Ukrainian. We only started getting rid of the Russian influence in 2014, but even 30 years is not long time ago in this context >

Haha. Man, you're funny. I did business in western Ukraine. Mukachevo, Uzhhorod. No Russians there. All local politicians there are extremely corrupt. One asked me to pay him 300k EUR in cash to get the permit I was seeking. This is one of many bribe demands I received. And I am not even talking about the mafia there. The smuggling across SK/HU borders. That's another disaster.
Open your eyes. >

There’s two categories of nations where breaking news stories of corruption happen with some frequency.


Nations that are on their way to a corrupt system yet still have some oversight and free press. 


Nations that are on their way to terminating a system of corruption, and the new anti-corruption system is catching those that engage in corruption.


I have no doubt Ukraine is the latter. 
Since 2017 Ukraine has worked together with OECD and other organizations to map out and implement anti-corruption measures. OECD praised the progress as “unprecedented”.
Zelensky made anti-corruption a key platform for his government. It is widely believed that the success of the work (and how it hurts Russian-friendly oligarchs) was a key motivator for the invasion as well.
Kudos to Zelensky & Co for taking rapid action to combat corruption - even while in the middle of a war. >

That’s laughable they’re ore corrupt than ever.  No one is accountable and we have no idea we’re all the funds are going in Ukraine. >

Go back to r/conspiracy >

Keep supporting the military industrial complex they would never lie to you about weapons of mass destruction to enter a 20 year war.  How many civilians are going to die to keep the money flowing to the “defense contractors”? >

Russia is the one who attacked and tried to take over another country, you lying, scheming, traitorous weadel >

Is this really a "scandal"? Ukraine has been known for a long time to have a problem with corruption. They're just cleaning house now. >

I am from western Ukraine but very sadly and unfortunately we heard a lot of second hand stories from people feeling Kherson and Donbas region mentioning the corrupt commanders stealing aid and weapons. Mostly family members describing how it was for their sons. It was been picked up by local media back then around the summer, but as you can imagine its not the main story. 
Im glad these officials are fired because Im sure the corruption was all organized. The problem is though....Zelensky hired most of them in the first place. I hope for the best here....hopefully its not a "replace one corrupt politicians with another corrupt politicians that does what I say" type of situation now.