It’s hardly popular to acknowledge that Ukraine, an embattled nation gripped in a valiant effort to defeat a now two-year old Russian incursion, is a sump of public corruption. But, since gaining independence in 1990, the country has ranked at or near the bottom of Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index every year.
Peacetime or wartime, and despite thirty years of having been proven wrong, the United States banks optimistically on Ukraine’s reform. Over five presidential administrations in Washington and Kyiv, U.S. officials have worked with their Ukrainian counterparts to implement regulations and systems to ensure transparency and accountability in matters relating to public funds.
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