Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy is scrambling to contain a corruption scandal amid pressure on the frontline and on the country's energy grid. Photograph: Andrea Rosa/AP
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy is racing to contain the fallout from a high-level corruption scandal that could undermine his authority, just as his country’s soldiers and civilians face potentially their toughest winter of the war with Russia.
A week after anti-corruption investigators said they had smashed an alleged $100 million (€86 million) kickback scheme centred on state nuclear power firm Energoatom, the furore is still swirling around Zelenskiy even as Ukraine’s troops are unde
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