Olga Stefanishyna – Wiki CommonsEndless corruption scandals, Kiev style.We have reported here on TGP about Kiev regime leader Volodymyr Zelensky’s new shakeup in his government, which will see him appointing his fourth Ukrainian Prime Minister shortly.What wasn’t so clear before was that this restructuring of the administration was triggered by the imminent very bad developments in the corruption investigations that have been whipping Zelensky’s rule for the last year.Olga Stefanishyna, the Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States, who is accused of corruption, is leaving her position at her own request, according to local media.— Military Summary (@MilitarySummary) July 12, 2026Politico reported:“Looming embezzlement charges against Ukraine’s Ambassador to the U.S. Olga Stefanishyna appear to have sped up a decision to shake up the government just a year after the last regrouping.‘Stefanishyna has to come back to Ukraine, and we need a strong ambassador in America; that’s why changes started now’, a senior Ukrainian official, who was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive political issues, told POLITICO.‘Olga has to deal with the anti-corruption watchdogs’ allegations, even though they are not totally fair against her, and the case overall is stupid’, added the official, who has direct knowledge of the moves.”These revelations come to light by the EU-lovers from Politico as a ‘soft-presenting’ of the news: the investigation is ‘not fair’, the case is ‘stupid’.A harsher read would say: Zelensky has to recall US ambassador because she is the target of MULTIPLE corruption probes, showing how little progress he has made changing the rampant corruption culture in Ukraine.“The ambassador featured in several corruption probes instigated in 2019 and 2025 by Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau and Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. The investigations concern a decade-old 2.5 million hryvnia (€49,000) embezzlement case at the justice ministry, the illegal acquisition of Ukrainian state property by Stefanishyna’s ex-husband, and a lavish apartment in central Kyiv registered to her parents that Stefanishyna did not declare until journalists discovered it. The ambassador has denied any wrongdoing.”Read more:Zelensky Reshuffles Ukrainian Government Again, Ousts Yulia Svyrydenko as Prime Minister After Just One Year/*! This file is auto-generated */!function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i