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Seen from space, the war is carved into Ukraine's earth.. As battles rage in and around the city of Bakhmut, a strategically important city on the war’s front lines, satellite images released by ...
Google has updated it's aerial maps of Ukraine for the first time since the start of Russia's attack - with images now revealing the full scale of devastation. The contrast is stark in Mariupol.
Corruption is a significant issue in Ukrainian society [1] [2] going back to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. [3] After declaring independence from the Soviet Union, Ukraine faced a series of politicians from different sides of the political spectrum, as well as criminal bosses and oligarchs, who used the corruption of police, political parties, and industry to gain power. [4]
Last year, it conducted a nationwide poll in Ukraine in which 94% of the respondents said they consider corruption to be common to some degree or another. “Gifts” to vendors, payoffs to local ...
Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia annexed Ukrainian Crimea and supported pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian military in the Donbas war. The first eight years of conflict also included naval incidents, cyberwarfare, and heightened political tensions. In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The overall budget of the program was 15.84 million euros. The immediate executor of the program representing the Kingdom of Denmark was DANIDA. [4] [7] The project was implemented as international technical aid, according to Contract No 3582–01 from 15 March 2017, [5] under the Framework Agreement between Ukraine and European Commission (ratified together with the notice under the Law 360 ...
Ukraine ticked up in Transparency International's latest Corruption Perceptions Index, ranking 104th out of 180 countries. Public tolerance for graft has also plummeted as Russia's invasion saps ...
Media portrayals of the Russo-Ukrainian War, including skirmishes in eastern Donbas and the 2014 Ukrainian revolution after the Euromaidan protests, the subsequent 2014 annexation of Crimea, incursions into Donbas, and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, have differed widely between Ukrainian, Western and Russian media. [1]