The scheme exposes how Russia's $1 trillion war budget enriches corrupt officers while families of killed soldiers are systematically denied death benefits.
Czech investigators claim the founder of charity foundation Help Ukraine transferred 2 million crowns ($88.604) to his mother's account and purchased an 8 million crown ($354.224) apartment using funds intended for Ukrainian refugee assistance.
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.