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    Make wartime corruption high treason, Zelenskyy to tell parliament

    More from the Ukrainian president now, who is set to propose tougher anti-corruption measures this week.

    Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a TV interview today he would ask parliament to increase penalties for those found guilty of corruption during wartime.

    He wants to "equate corruption with high treason in wartime", he said.

    "But this is not a firing squad. This is not Stalinism," he said. "If there is evidence, the person must be behind bars."

    The president hopes that by fighting corruption he will make it easier for partners to support rebuilding efforts that will cost billions of dollars.

    This is the latest shake-up in a series of crackdowns on corruption in Ukraine.

    Earlier this month, Mr Zelenskyy dismissed all regional military recruitment chiefs after a nationwide audit.

    "We are fast approaching the point where it will be us or them," Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on the Telegram app on Sunday.

    External and internal factors meant the state's survival was beginning to depend on Ukraine's ability to "really destroy the corrupt as a social group," she said.

    https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-live-updates-satellite-images-show-new-russia-deployments-as-biden-and-putin-summit-mooted-12541713
 
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