KYIV (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ordered the creation of a special commission on Friday to carry out an audit of heads of military draft offices in regions across Ukraine.
After meeting his top military commanders, Zelenskiy said the commission would be headed by General Oleksandr Pavliuk, who is first deputy defence minister.
The decision follows Ukrainian media reports of corruption allegations against the head of a draft office.
Zelenskiy said he had ordered the urgent dismissal of the head of a draft office whose family was reported by the Ukrainska Pravda media outlet to own property and cars worth millions of dollars in Spain.
“I gave an urgent order to create a commission… and together with law enforcement units and the National Agency for Corruption Prevention to check all the heads of military draft offices in all regions of Ukraine so that they do not disgrace our state and the memory of heroes who die at the front,” Zelenskiy said on the Telegram messaging app.
In his statement, he also said he discussed the situation on the front lines, weapons supplies and the pace of production of Ukrainian defence companies.
(Reporting by Olena Harmash, Editing by Timothy Heritage and Tom Balmforth)
