It

 takes till now?

to figure out these guys were corrupted? 

What if they were moles/plants/Russian infiltrators the entire time?

Then what?

Maybe there were other reasons (such as this, corruption) that the EU didn't want Ukraine in it forever?

Maybe?

Ukrainian corruption scandal costs top officials their jobs

I mean first the news of state owned Chinese firms aiding Russia's war effort and now this?

It's not a particularly good day for the home team.

Not in the least.

"Several senior Ukrainian officials, including front-line governors, lost their jobs Tuesday in a corruption scandal plaguing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government as it grapples with the nearly 11-month-old Russian invasion."

"Ukraine’s biggest government shake-up since the war began came as U.S. officials said Washington was poised to approve supplying Kyiv with M1 Abrams tanks, with international reluctance eroding toward sending tanks to the battlefront against the Russians."

(Do you honestly think the timing of this is an accident?

"...came as U.S. officials said Washington was poised to approve supplying Kyiv with M1 Abrams tanks, with international reluctance eroding toward sending tanks to the battlefront against the Russians."?)

"Zelenskyy was elected in 2019 on an anti-establishment and anti-corruption platform in a country long gripped by graft, and the new allegations come as Western allies are channeling billions of dollars to help Kyiv fight against Moscow."

"The shake-up even touched Zelenskyy’s office. Its deputy head, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, prominent for his frequent battlefield updates, quit as the president pledged to address allegations of graft — including some related to military spending — that embarrassed authorities and could slow Ukraine’s efforts to join the European Union and NATO."

(It's an accident it's happening right now as "the west" is about to send tanks? Really? Thats your position? Let me ask you something, if you had dirty, treacherous, lying, stealing infiltrators/traitors in place all along? When exactly would you let it be known what they were up to? What exact moment would you wait for, to say to the West: "Hey, you better slow down and think about what you are doing for a second...And what exactly is going to be known about the people who replace these folks? You really gonna trust them? Said a while back they didn't get out all the infiltrators the last time they tried...)

Tymoshenko asked to be relieved of his duties, according to an online decree signed by Zelenskyy and Tymoshenko’s own social media posts. Neither cited a reason for the resignation.

(Sometimes saying nothing says everything...)

"Deputy Defense Minister Viacheslav Shapovalov also resigned, local media reported, alleging his departure was linked to a scandal involving the purchase of food for Ukraine’s armed forces. Deputy Prosecutor General Oleksiy Symonenko also quit."

"In all, four deputy ministers and five governors of front-line provinces were set to leave their posts, the country’s cabinet secretary said on the Telegram messaging app."

Authorities did not announce any criminal charges. There was no immediate explanation.

(Why not? 

And how could all of this corruption be going on and other parties not know about it or report it? It's not like it exist in a vacuum. Wives, family, relatives, neighbors etc...people know when you start behaving different etc...)

"The departures thinned government ranks already diminished by the deaths of the interior minister, who oversaw Ukraine’s police and emergency services, and others in the ministry’s leadership in a helicopter crash last week."

"Tymoshenko joined the presidential office in 2019 after working on Zelenskyy’s media strategy during his presidential campaign. He was under investigation in connection with his personal use of luxury cars and was among officials a National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine investigator linked in September to the embezzlement of humanitarian aid worth more than $7 million earmarked for the southern Zaporizhzhia region. He has denied the allegations."

(Luxury cars...

Seriously?

Did the guy never see Goodfellas?

You dint show up after a heist with all the loot.

Smart criminals wait till the heats off somewhat before flaunting their spoils.)

"On Sunday, a deputy minister at the infrastructure ministry, Vasyl Lozynsky, was fired for alleged participation in a network embezzling budget funds. Ukraine’s anti-corruption agency detained him while he was receiving a $400,000 bribe for helping to fix contracts for restoring facilities battered by Russian missile strikes, according to Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov."

"Zelenskyy said... 

“There will be no return to what used to be in the past.”

(Past?

Sounds like its still the present.)

“It’s very hard to save the country when there’s a lot of corruption,” 

Andrii Borovyk, the executive director of Transparency International Ukraine, a nonprofit organization that fights corruption, told The Associated Press."

(Fact is you can't.)

"Fesenko, head of the Kyiv-based Penta Center independent think tank, said Ukrainian authorities and Western officials couldn’t simply “turn a blind eye on latest scandals.” He said the corruption involved supplies for the army so the shake-up was “intended to calm Western partners and show Brussels and Washington that their aid is being used effectively.”

(Yeah...just like it always has been everywhere else...)

"Allegations by Ukraine’s journalists and nonprofits about corruption at high levels of government, in courts and in business have lingered under Zelenskyy, despite a proliferation of anti-corruption panels and measures, according to a U.S. State Department 2020 country report."

"A major corruption scandal could endanger the tens of billions of dollars the U.S. and its allies are pouring into Ukraine to keep Ukraine’s fighters armed, civil servants paid and the lights on. It could risk sinking what has been bipartisan popular and political support for Ukraine from the United States."

(This is why you need to consider the timing of this...It's one of two things, they are Russian plants/sympathizers etc? Or they know how this is going to go and they're gonna get what they can while they can and get out of dodge...either way is not good...

and: 

"four deputy ministers and five governors of front-line provinces" 

leaving their post kinda tells you what they think...)

"Meanwhile, in what would be a reversal, U.S. officials said the Biden administration is set to approve sending M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine in a decision that could be announced as soon as Wednesday, though it could take months or years for the tanks to be delivered.'

"The U.S. announcement is expected in coordination with Germany stating that it will approve Poland’s request to transfer German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, according to one official. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision has not yet been made public."

"German officials declined to comment on the reports of a deal. The news weekly Der Spiegel reported Tuesday, without citing a source, that Germany will provide Ukraine with at least one company of Leopard 2 tanks from its own army’s stock."

(Still kissin Germanys ass we are...Yup...)