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President Joe Biden speaks before signing a $95 billion Ukraine aid package that also includes support for Israel, Taiwan, and other allies, in the State Dining Room of the White House, April 24, 2024, in Washington
A UKRAINIAN court ordered the detention of Agriculture Minister Oleksandr Solskyi today as part of a high-profile corruption investigation.
The High Anti-Corruption Court ruled that Mr Solskyi should be held for 60 days, but he was released on bail of 75 million hryvnias (£1.5m), a statement said.
Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau suspects that the minister headed an organised crime group that, between 2017 and 2021, unlawfully obtained land worth 291 million hryvnias (£5.8m) and tried to obtain other land worth 190 million hryvnias (£3.8m).
MARK HAZELDEN criticises the Western narrative that the incident was an escalation of Russia’s confrontation with the West, given that Belarus, a Russian ally, warned Poland of off-course drones, and the drones were unarmed, cheap wooden decoys
