Ukraine's National Agency on Corruption Prevention accused on Jan. 11 Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal of exposing the identity of a whistleblower who had reported wrongdoing of the head of the Commission for Regulation of Gambling and Lotteries. Shmyhal's spokesperson denied the allegation.
Ukrainian Prime Minister, Denys Shmyhal, never disclosed any information about a whistleblower in the Gambling and Lotteries Regulation Commission (CRGL), the PM’s press secretary Olha Kuryshko told NV on Jan. 11.
Over the course of the war, Ukraine’s SBU security service investigated about 8,000 criminal cases of collaboration with the enemy. But if current laws are not amended, people in liberated Ukrainian territories will be subject to prosecution for even the most innocuous misdeeds.
The Office of the President’s Representation for the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol has intensified its work on deoccupation and reintegration of the peninsula, due to the fact that in August this year it took up functions of the Crimea Platform’s National Office. — Ukrinform.
Shmyhal sends a letter to Ursula von der Leyen / Photo from UNIAN
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has indeed asked the European Commission to help Ukraine to obtain a vaccine against the COVID-19 coronavirus.
This was reported by the Ukrainian-registered European Pravda news outlet with reference to a comment by Shmyhal's Press Secretary Olha Kuryshko.
"Indeed, the prime minister sent President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen an official letter, seeking early access to vaccination for Ukrainians. The point at issue is the delivery of vaccines to Ukraine earlier than March, when the first batches of vaccines under the COVAX Facility are expected," Kuryshko said.