Zelenskyy sacks deputy head of his office amid reported corruption investigation – as it happened
And, on that note, we will be closing the blog for today. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed deputy head of the presidential office Iryna Mudra on Wednesday, according to the decree published on the presidential website (12:32). The move comes hours after Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies aid they had uncovered a group suspected of money laundering, which they said included a senior presidential official – although they did not give any names (10:06, 11:25). Separately, Zelenskyy’s preferred candidates for foreign and defence ministries were approved by the Ukrainian parliament (12:37), despite some controversy around the appointments amid public comments from the popular previous defence minister, Mykhailo Fedorov (12:37). A Ukrainian man who has been arrested in Croatia as part of an investigation into the 2022 bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Germany and Russia (12:16, 16:24).