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What’s behind Zelensky’s latest purge?

14 August 2023

8:35 PM

14 August 2023

8:35 PM

President Zelensky has announced that he is dismissing the heads of all Ukraine’s regional military recruitment offices and replacing them with veterans who had served on the front line. He used a video address to say that a state investigation had turned up widespread corruption, including bribe-taking and help for draft dodgers to flee abroad.

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