For a while, the head of state left Oleksii Reznikov in the post of the minister of defense – the threat from the Russians and the support of public opinion leaders turned out to be more important than a series of internal corruption scandals.

Assistant to an actor-wannabe-candidate, a high position at Bankova (the street where the Presidential administration is located), the Great Construction program, and finally dismissal – this is a summary of Kyrylo Tymoshenko’s recent career. And then there may be also a case coming from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU).

The former owner of PrivatBank and the scandal-plagued billionaire, Ihor Kolomoisky, met the Russian full-scale invasion in the Menorah center, a cultural and business center he’d built for the Jewish community in the city of Dnipro in eastern Ukraine. He spent most of his time there in the first months of the war. 

What emboldened Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, to take a decisive step with regard to the scandalous Judge Pavlo Vovk?

Only one thing can be said with certainty about the register of oligarchs – this document has turned into a losing game.

Ihor Kolomoisky, Hennadiy Korban, and Vadim Rabinovich, three powerful Ukrainian businessmen, have suddenly became targets in a rumored presidential decree on the revocation of citizenship. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy never confirmed the existence of this document, but Korban is no longer allowed into the country.

A major shockwave rocked Ukraine’s political circles on July 17, when President Volodymyr Zelenskyy unveiled decrees suspending the head of the SBU Security Service of Ukraine Ivan Bakanov, as well as Persecutor-General Iryna Venediktova. 

American congresswoman Victoria Spartz has appealed to Joe Biden with a demand to brief on the dealings of Andriy Yermak, Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Chief-of-Staff.

The core businesses of Ukraine’s richest man Rinat Akhmetov are deeply in the red, prompting the oligarch to relinquish his influential – and lossmaking – media division. Avoiding getting officially designated as an oligarch by the state under new laws is an added bonus.

The horrifying images revealed after the withdrawal of the Russian army from a quiet northwestern suburb of Kyiv have shocked and sickened people around the world.

The Polish government fears Russian aerial retaliation if they transfer fighter jets to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, while the United States says that 70 fighter jets will not give Kyiv a significant advantage in the sky.

Russian military experts – both liberals and nationalists – agree that Moscow would not prevail in a guerilla war in Ukraine, and that any large-scale conflict would spell doom for Russia.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal “from time to time makes decisions beneficial to DTEK, Ukraine’s largest energy company, owned by Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, and lobbies for the interests of officials loyal to the businessman.”