Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov calls it a “strange coincidence” that the scandal with a corruption contract for the purchase of food from the Ministry of Defense that erupted in late January occurred after the removal in December 2022 of a number of persons from their duties in the corresponding department of the ministry. The Minister said this in an interview with the.

" We are working on this together with NAPC. Making an analysis of the audit findings in order to propose a change in approach, but within the limits of the ruling that governs it. And then he first arrives on the video project " Such a strange coincidence,"

“Therefore, of course, I have a negative reaction: if a document on the provision of the Armed Forces, where there is a unit number, location and, most importantly, the quantitative composition of the unit (and this is classified information during martial law), becomes available outside, then someone. I have a question: what other documents did he, she or they copy and to whom else did they pass them on Therefore, I had a negative emotion on the employees of the Ministry of Defense, uncontrollably copying documents that cannot be copied, because this is martial law,"

Recall that the author of the investigation on the purchase of food for the Ministry of Defense told why he was forced to publish documents. According to Yuri Nikolov, for several weeks he tried to reach out to officials in high offices so that the revealed corruption contract was stopped.. But he was just ignored. After that, he decided to show the documents publicly..

By the way, at first, the Ministry of Defense generally claimed that the published ZN.

UA information about the purchase of products for the military at inflated prices allegedly has "

Subsequently, the minister admitted errors in the contract for the purchase of products, but called the investigation of Yuri Nikolov for ZN " UA regarding inflated prices for products for the military - “The rear rats of the Ministry of Defense during the war “saw” on products for the Armed Forces of Ukraine more than during civilian life”.

In the ZN investigation. UA was told that the Ministry of Defense signed an agreement for 13 billion with a company with an authorized capital of a thousand hryvnias. That is, a "