The courts in Ukraine have to adjust to new work because of the corruption cases that have been uncovered.

At least that is the message of the statements by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as well as a Facebook entry by Justice Minister Denys Maljuska on Tuesday.

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The lawyer Maljuska shows himself in a photo in a newly furnished, clean prison cell with its own sink and kitchen cupboard.

However, the bunk bed with a fresh mattress and the solid window bars are a reminder that the equipment is in a detention center.

If you want to use a "paid" luxury cell, you have to pay for the stay - the account is given below.

However, there was no account number to be found there.

So the entry was apparently a joke – and a nod to possible lawbreakers with the fence post.

Luxurious real estate and vehicles

On Tuesday, the staff merry-go-round in Kiev continued to spin in the course of the past few days of suspected corruption: One of the deputy heads of the President's Office in Kyiv, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, published his resignation letter dated the day before.

Accordingly, he is leaving office "at his own request".

In recent months, investigative media reports have repeatedly raised questions about his lifestyle.

He was observed at the wheel of an off-road vehicle provided by General Motors for humanitarian missions.

Subsequently, there were reports that Tymoshenko would live in a 1,200-square-meter mansion in a luxurious Kiev suburb.

According to Ukrainian media, Oleksiy Kuleba, the previous head of the regional state administration in Kyiv, could be appointed as Tymoshenko's successor.

Oleksiy Kuleba was dismissed by President Zelenskyy on Tuesday along with four other regional heads of administration.

These “governors” are Kiev's pillars in the regions.

Deputy Secretary of Defense resigns

In the past few days, the team in Kyiv around the president and government had to survive the uncovering of several cases of corruption or abuse of power.

This was preceded by partly journalistic research, partly apparently also the work of investigators from the anti-corruption authority NABU.

One case concerned the Ministry of Defence, where food for the soldiers was said to have been bought at inflated prices.

Minister Oleksiy Reznikov dismissed the allegations in parliament, but his deputy in charge of supply Vyacheslav Shapovalov resigned on Tuesday - "in line with European practices" and so as not to jeopardize trust in the government in times of war, he said in a handwritten statement announced.

His authority accepted the resignation and went on to counterattack: the allegations were "unfounded".

For example, the procurement of food and fuel for the army has recently been demonopolized.

Legal action will be taken against the "false" claims of the portal zn.ua, which is considered to be serious.