The Russian invasion

Zelenskyi. Efrem Lukatsky / AP  

 

Russian invasionUkraine's response  

Zelenskyi in fiery speech against corruption: "Warning you"  

 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy devoted his daily video address to a fiery speech against corruption within the country, Reuters reports. 

 

- Let me warn all members of parliament, government officials and civil society officials, said the president. 

 

No forgiveness will be shown to public servants "who work against the state", he continued.  

 

The speech was given against the background of two arrests. A military recruiting officer is suspected of gross embezzlement, and a member of parliament is suspected of collaboration with Russia.  

 

Zelenskyi has promised a crackdown on corruption to show Western allies that Ukraine is serious about living up to the requirements for EU membership.  

 

Russian invasionWagner rebellion 

  

New report: Britain has underestimated Wagner  

 

The UK government receives strong criticism from the country's foreign affairs committee for having underestimated the growth of the Russian Wagner group, writes the BBC.  

 

The committee, which for the first time has written a report based on open source reference, believes that the British government has not taken the Wagner Group's activities seriously enough for ten years. The report also points to an underestimation of the impact the group's actions can have on security in Europe.  

 

"Where the West moves out, Wagner moves in, seeing opportunity in suffering and profiting from chaos," the report says. 

 

 

President of Moldova Maia Sandu. Archive image. Yoan Valat / AP 

 

The Russian invasion. The outside world's response 

Moldova is reducing the number of Russian diplomats in the country 

 

Moldova limits the number of diplomats Russia can have in the country, writes Reuters. That after several years of "hostile actions" from Moscow, according to Moldovan Foreign Minister Nicu Popescu.  

- For many years we have been subject to hostile Russian actions and policies. Many of them have come through the embassy, he said.  

 

Moldovan President Maia Sandu has previously strongly condemned Russia's invasion of neighboring Ukraine.