Ukraine and Japan bolster their cooperation within the Ramstein Format's IT coalition, focusing on digital military projects and exploring new collaborative opportunities.
Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), in collaboration with top military officials, has exposed a massive embezzlement scheme within the Defense Ministry, involving about $40 million earmarked for 100,000 mortar shells, implicating dubious arms contractors and bureaucrats, the SBU reports.
One of Ukrainian defense contractors supplying food to Ukraine’s military inflated egg prices, and used profits to buy luxury hotels abroad, Ukrainian journalists revealed.
The Ukrainian government removes all deputy defense ministers and the ministry's state secretary, a week after Rustem Umerov took over as the new Defense Minister, replacing Oleksii Reznikov.
The former State Property Fund chief, Rustem Umerov, replaces Oleksii Reznikov as Ukraine's defense minister after the latter resigned following a string of army procurement scandals in the media.
Oleksii Reznikov's resignation as Defense Minister was approved by the Verkhovna Rada after 552 days in office, following a string of army procurement scandals.