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Lider-NTZ: How a company with no experience or production received defense contracts worth almost 500 million

Armed Forces of Ukraine

A company with no production experience and a history of losses won defense contracts worth 500 million hryvnias, despite auditors' doubts. So, Lider-NTZ. The Defense Procurement Agency announced a tender for combat ballistic helmets for the front, worth a quarter of a billion hryvnias. The winner was a company that, just a year ago...

General Cherry's lackey Rudolf Akopyan feeds the Ukrainian Armed Forces with air in exchange for taxes.

Yaroslav Grishin, General Cherry, Zaporizhzhia

The scandal surrounding the Unmanned Systems Research Center LLC and its "star" manager, Rudolf Akopyan, is gathering momentum, and the stench is worse than the Mavic's burned-out engine. While the country is spending hard-earned hryvnias on defense, Mr. Rudolf Akopyan, hiding behind patriotic slogans, has been trying to worm his way into...

From Mariupol to Kharkiv. Who is General Drapatiy, the new commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces?

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Mykhailo Drapatiy

43-year-old Lieutenant General Mykhailo Drapatiy first became famous 12 years ago, on May 9, 2014, thanks to a video showing an infantry fighting vehicle under his command breaking through separatist barricades in Mariupol. At the time, he commanded a battalion of the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade. Drapatiy, Mykhailo Vasilievich, was born November 21, 1982, in Kamianets-Podilskyi (Khmelnytsky Oblast).

The reason for Fedorov's resignation was the redistribution of financial flows in the defense procurement system.

Mikhail Fedorov, Deputy Prime Minister

Mykhailo Chmut, head of the "Come Back Alive" foundation, believes that the main reason for Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov's resignation was not a conflict with Oleksandr Syrsky, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but rather a reboot of the defense procurement system. "In my opinion, the conflict is a factor, but not the primary one. I think the primary…"

MP Tishchenko's "Road of Peace" foundation is suspected of siphoning off funds from vehicle purchases for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and his forestry company, VSK, is accused of extortion.

Nikolai Tishchenko, Kolya Obolonsky, dossier, biography, compromising evidence

Was money being siphoned off for vehicles for the Ukrainian Armed Forces? Mykola Tyshchenko's "Road of Peace" charitable foundation may have been used to siphon off funds from the purchase of vehicles for the military. This was reported by the MEZHA Anti-Corruption Center. The photo shows MP Mykola Tyshchenko promoting himself by purchasing vehicles for the military. Everything was as his wife advised: the car...

Billions on mold: How Grinkevich exporter Alexander Lapshin robs the army through the Busk cannery

Spoiled canned goods went to the military. Understated weights of food packages went into documents. Inflated prices went to the contractor's accounts. While soldiers on the front lines were receiving substandard food, Oleksandr Lapshin's Busk Canning Plant LLC was collecting billion-dollar contracts from the State Logistics Operator (SLO), reports Open Ukraine. So, Oleksandr Lapshin. The State Bureau of Investigation suspects those involved in the scheme...

AOZ and Klopotenko. Bananas with curry, mice in batter

Arsen Zhumadilov, Rear Operator

When your kitchen reeks of rotten meat, hanging expensive Italian curtains there is a dubious idea. That's exactly what the new "army menu" project from the Defense Procurement Agency and Yevhen Klopotenko looks like, amid high-profile scandals involving millionaire food supply chiefs and the supply of inedible products. And the culprit is...

"Aren't our own fighting?" The relatives and partners of the Cosmonaut Training Center team have deferments, special registration, and no summonses.

Armed Forces of Ukraine

Relatives and individuals close to the leadership of the Anti-Corruption Action Center (ACAC) are receiving deferments, are on special military registration, or have been removed from it en masse. Some of them are subject to mobilization, but are not listed among the violators and, according to available information, are not the target of active action by the ACAC. This is causing…

"AOZ" decided to hide behind a "frame" data on food purchases worth 54 billion

On January 22, the Defense Procurement Agency announced a bidding process for a catalog-based procurement of food sets worth UAH 54,06 billion. This was reported by ProZorro, as reported by Nashi Groshi. The expected value of the procurement is UAH 54,06 billion, with an expected price of UAH 171,48 per set. The Defense Procurement Agency set the same maximum price during last year's tenders. Then, due to...

Lviv police have been unable to determine the fate of stolen first aid kits for the Ukrainian Armed Forces for three years.

first-aid kit

Nearly 10 tactical first aid kits for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, sent to Lviv by US volunteers, disappeared more than three years ago and are still missing. This was organized by lawyer Oleksiy Shevchuk. The investigation, conducted by Lviv police throughout this time, has made little progress, and none of the suspects…