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Ukraine Business Roundup — On corruption in Ukraine
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Ukraine Business Roundup — On corruption in Ukraine

by Liliane Bivings

Editor's note: The following is the May 6, 2026 edition of our Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. You wouldn't know it from Western media outlets — but the corruption scandal that prompted Ukraine's first wartime protests last summer continues to unfold. Last week, Ukraine’s leading outlet Ukrainska Pravda (meaning "Ukrainian Truth") published two videos presenting leaked transcripts of w

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