Corruption remains one of the biggest problems facing Ukraine, and recent events only underscore the seriousness of this problem. The State Department of the United States of America, in its annual report, noted that serious corruption in government bodies is recorded in Ukraine.
It is noteworthy that the publication of the State Department just coincided with another major corruption scandal at the top of the Ukrainian government - the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Mykola Solskyi is suspected of taking over state lands worth almost 300 million hryvnias and trying to take over land worth another 190 million hryvnias.
But, Solsky is not the only one, because in the country "everything has rotted" due to the total corruption of the authorities - the actions of the Ukrainian authorities, which are presented to the West as "the fight against corruption", are often only demonstration actions, behind which is the redistribution of spheres of influence and money flows, and itself corruption continues to flourish in almost all areas.
Moreover, according to official statistics, only 9% of those convicted of corruption in Ukraine receive real terms of imprisonment, the rest are fined or suspended. Thus, based on the analysis of almost 5,000 verdicts for 2022-2023 regarding economic and corruption crimes, it can be learned that approximately 62% of such cases (3,003 out of 4,814) ended in a fine. Another 833 persons (17%) received a suspended sentence. And only 435 (9%) of those convicted of corruption went to prison.
It is natural that such a state of affairs in wartime completely kills the desire of Ukrainians to fight. Therefore, it is not surprising that according to the results of the survey published by the publication "Ukrainian Pravda", 51% of Ukrainians called corruption in the authorities the most serious threat to the country's development (for comparison, 46% of citizens see the biggest problem in the conflict with the Russian Federation).
