In Russia, Corruption Cases Follow Battlefield Failures In Russia, Corruption Cases Follow Battlefield Failures Officials in three of the five Russian regions bordering Ukraine have been accused of embezzling funds for border defenses
Putins suddenly worried about corruption In Russia - Newsweek Russian President Vladimir Putin 's recent war machine purge of his top military and defense officials is part of an ongoing surge in corruption and bribery cases in the country amid the war
A Corrosion of Corruption: the parlous state of the Russian military Seen in the context of decades of corruption within the Ministry of Defence, it is clear that a pervasive culture of kickbacks, theft and bribery has hollowed out Russia’s fighting capabilities and left it ill-prepared for a full-scale war in Ukraine