If Ukraine loses the fight against corruption, it loses the war

Other Ukrainian presidents were not free from akin stories. Viktor Yushchenko had to explain the substance of "Dear friends", that is privileged businessmen from the elite of the Orange Revolution. Viktor Yanukovych built a strategy of kleptocracy, which ended in escaping from the country in 2014 and occupying his residence in Mezhyhirja, a material symbol of stealing the state. Petro Poroshenko in turn struggled with the "Swinarczuk affair" – a scandal surrounding corruption in the arms manufacture – and accusations of nepotism in the military and state companies.