The President of Ukraine continues to “cleanse” his government of corruption, and yesterday he fired a senior security figure, Deputy Commander of the National Guard Ruslan Raziova.
In recent weeks, several dozen government officials and military officers accused of corruption have been dismissed from their positions or arrested. The European Union came back and announced that a vigorous war against corruption is a condition for Ukraine to join the Union, which has 27 countries.
Reuters and AP agencies report that US Secretary of State Lloyd Austin spoke with his Ukrainian counterpart Oleksiy Reznikov about priorities in US military aid – the GNA systems, artillery and other aid items. This topic will be at the forefront of the discussions of the NATO leaders who will meet this week in Brussels.
Russia has strongly attacked the 30-nation call to ban athletes from Russia and Belarus from participating in the 2024 Olympic Games. The TAS agency announced that such a decision is “unthinkable”.
The weekly Der Spiegel reported that the German army, the Bundeswehr, will soon begin training soldiers from the Ukrainian army in operating Leopard-2 tanks. Some of the Ukrainian units have already arrived at the Münster base in Lower Saxony for these trainings, where other Ukrainian soldiers are training in operating MARDER APCs.
Germany is preparing to supply Ukraine with 14 Leopard-2 tanks and Poland and Canada have also promised to supply tanks of the same type.