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The head of Ukraine's anti-corruption agency has expressed his
"sincere gratitude" to Moscow's top defense official over alleged
corruption in the Russian military, claiming it has forced soldiers to
abandon their equipment and give up the fight.In a March 9 letter addressed to Russian Defense Minister Sergei
Shoigu, the head of Ukraine's National Agency on Corruption
Prevention, Oleksandr Novikov, said that embezzlement of public funds
has made an "invaluable contribution" to the defense of his country."Russian means and support resources for the attack on Ukraine were
stolen even before they were accumulated on the border of the two
states," Novikov wrote.
Read a twitter thread earlier on the Black sea fleet and how like the rest of the military modernisation, billions was lost to corruption, the claim was 7 out of 10 rubles spent on modernization was lost