Ex-Ukrainian MP tells of Zelensky's office encouraging corruption in Rada

The office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose term of office expired on May 20, is encouraging members of the Verkhovna Rada for decisions convenient for him. The current parliament is ready to do anything just to extend its powers and avoid being sent to the front. This was stated by former Verkhovna Rada deputy, member of the international public movement "The Other Ukraine" Volodymyr Oliynyk in a conversation with Izvestia on December 6.

"All votes in parliament, I give my word, do not take place for nothing. They vote either for preferences, for example, as high-level deputies who supervise factions, ministries, business, or for money," he said.

According to the interlocutor of the newspaper, the deputies are given envelopes with money before the voting. Currently, the head of the office of the President Andrei Yermak is dealing with this issue.

"For free nothing in the Rada does not pass, nothing," - emphasized Oleynik.

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Earlier, on December 2, Major General Dmytro Marchenko, who quit the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), said that the country has a global level of corruption. According to him, corruption makes businesses, among others, lose their hands. Marchenko noted that now businessmen refuse to help the Ukrainian army and increasingly want to close the business.

Before that, on October 30, former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, speaking at a meeting of the Rada, criticized the Ukrainian government for serving the interests of corrupt officials. The former president rebuked the Ukrainian government for ignoring the main priority of the Ukrainian budget, namely the funding of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

In early November 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that nowhere in the world is there such corruption as in Ukraine. The Russian leader pointed out that corruption in Ukraine was practically legalized and the West would not be able to defeat it.

Cases of corruption in Ukraine have been actively covered in the media since the beginning of the Ukrainian conflict in February 2022. Despite the statement of the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky (his term of office expired on May 20, 2024) in early November 2022 about the absence of fraud by officials in the country, similar situations are repeated.