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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 Russian losses

The Kyiv Independent's coverage of Russian military losses. Ukraine's General Staff publishes daily reports on Russian military casualties, equipment destruction, and material losses since the full-scale invasion began in February 2022. Independent verification of casualty figures remains challenging due to the ongoing nature of the war, though open-source intelligence analysts and Western defense officials provide periodic assessments of Russian losses.

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