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Why Ukraine's financial intelligence chief is facing an anti-corruption probe

Detectives from Ukraine’s anti-corruption bureau searched the country’s State Financial Monitoring Service as part of an investigation into the agency’s head, Filip Pronin, who is a suspect in a multimillion-dollar embezzlement scheme, an official close to the matter confirmed to the Kyiv Independent on condition of anonymity on June 12. Ukrainian media first reported that the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) had searched the offices on June 10. Yaroslav Zhelezniak, a lawmaker and deputy

The only winner of the Poland-Ukraine scandal is Putin

Vladimir Putin is losing the war he started. His army occupies every kilometer at a cost no economy can sustain, and the goals set in February 2022 have quietly vanished from his staff maps. But this war has more than one front, and one of them runs through Poland. On this front, Russia is currently winning, and we, Poles and Ukrainians, are supplying its ammunition. What we see today is a completely different Poland from the one in 2022. In the spring of 2022, Polish train stations looked li

Poland's President Karol Nawrocki (R) and President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) in Warsaw, Poland, on Dec. 19, 2025.

About Oryol Oblast

Oryol Oblast is a federal subject of Russia, approximately 360 kilometers (224 miles) south of Moscow. Oryol Oblast covers 24,700 square kilometers (9,500 square miles) and has a population of around 730,000. Its administrative center is Oryol city. Ukrainian forces have conducted drone strikes on fuel depots and military facilities in Oryol Oblast since Russia's full-scale invasion began in February 2022.

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