Overview

• The National Anti-Corruption Bureau alleges Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Chernyshov received a $345,000 kickback in a state-land development scheme.
• Prosecutors say the alleged deal, arranged during his tenure as minister of regional development, would have cost Ukraine about $24 million.
• Chernyshov has denied any wrongdoing and refused to resign while the case proceeds to its preventive measures hearing.
• Kyiv has intensified its anti-graft campaign to satisfy a core European Union requirement for membership.
• The charges emerge during ongoing Russian drone and missile attacks on Kyiv and following a Ukrainian strike that set fire to an oil depot in Russia’s Rostov region.