The people of Ukraine want an honest government, even as American and Russian kleptocrats circle their country.

Donald Trump Jr. offered his opinion on what his father will do concerning Ukraine at the 2025 Doha Summit: "When I see every license plate on a supercar in Monaco being Ukrainian — Bugattis — the rich fled.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the resignation of his powerful chief of staff, Andrii Yermak, whose residence was searched earlier in the day by anti-corruption investigators

Ukraine’s government has spent the best part of a decade trying to clamp down on graft, and not just because its foreign allies are demanding it. Many Ukrainians see the war that’s ravaging their country not only as a battle against Russian aggression,

"None of us really know what Zelenskyy is like operating solo, because he never has," one expert told NBC News.

ANALYSIS: Zelensky’s lost his chief of staff amid a €100m corruption scandal that the Kremlin will exploit – this is a disaster to Kyiv but also a sign that its system works, writes world affairs edit

In more normal times, the US Justice Department might respond to a Ukrainian investigation of corruption in the state-owned nuclear company Energoatom by issuing subpoenas seeking information from Holtec International,

A political earthquake in Ukraine has taken place as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff Andrii Yermak, the country’s second-most-powerful person, was forced to resign amid a corruption scandal.

Ask Ukrainians who the country's most powerful figure was after the president, and many would say Andriy Yermak, his chief of staff and a key negotiator during four years of war when Western support has kept Kyiv in the fight.

By Ben Aris in Berlin In a damning report, the The New York Times (NYT) detailed institutional corruption in the Zelenskiy administration, where the government has systematically undermined checks and balances to appoint its placemen in charge of key companies and institutions.