Welcome back to another edition of My Take 5, your weekly wrap of top international news. This week we are covering Ukraine’s other ongoing war against corruption, Russia’s continuing attacks on Ukrainian cities, Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal sentencing former PM Sheikh Hasina to death, rising Japan-China tensions, and Trump’s red carpet treatment of MBS. So let’s get to it. The big story coming out of Ukraine last week was a corruption scandal that was unearthed by its Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU). It involved two ministers, one former deputy prime minister and someone seen as very close to President Zelenskyy. The scam involves Ukraine’s state-run energy company Energoatom that was being used by the accused to distribute contracts in lieu of kickbacks. Separately, the

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