Head of Energoatom Petro Kotin, left, Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko, centre, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky visit the Khmelnytskyi Nuclear Power Plant in February.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for the dismissal of two cabinet ministers on Wednesday amid a probe into an alleged $140-million corruption scheme involving a former associate that has fuelled fresh public anger at Kyiv’s wartime government.

Anti-corruption authorities said this week they had detained five people and identified two others still at large, suspected of involvement in the alleged plot to control procurement at nuclear agency Energoatom and other state enterprises.

Ukraine’s biggest wartime graft scandal comes as Kyiv’s outmanned and underequipped troops are struggli

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