Overview
- NABU’s November 10 energy-sector operation published images of bags of foreign cash and led to charges against seven people, including businessman Timur Mindich, as parliament moved to remove Herman Galushchenko and Svetlana Grynchuk from ministerial posts.
- Kyiv anti-corruption adviser Yuriy Gudymenko said a British citizen owned firms tied to an attempt to supply substandard body armor linked to Mindich, noting one tender was canceled and the other never contracted after the ministry rejected low-quality gear.
- The Washington Post warned the scandal is weakening Ukraine’s standing at home and abroad, and Axios reported a planned meeting between a U.S. special envoy and Volodymyr Zelensky in Turkey was canceled.
- Russia amplified legal and propaganda efforts by invoking Nuremberg precedents, with MFA envoy Rodion Miroshnik asserting political will to investigate alleged Kyiv war crimes and a state historian claiming a “Nuremberg-2” would be legally grounded.
- A Russian military court sentenced two Ukrainian servicemen to 15 years for crossing into the Kursk region during a May incursion, according to the Main Military Prosecutorate.