Even with a new president who is rooting out corruption, there is still a lot of it there. From the UK Independent:
Ukrainian politician’s three-year-old son killed in assassination attempt
The three-year-old son of a Ukranian politician has been shot dead during an assassination attempt on his father.
Vyacheslav Sobolev, a businessman and member of the Kiev regional council, was at the wheel of his Range Rover when gunmen opened fire in the country’s capital, Kiev, on Sunday.
Mr Sabolev and his wife were unharmed but his son Oleksandr was hit by a bullet and died in an ambulance on the way to hospital, the Kyiv Post newspaper reported.
The attackers then fled the scene in a Lexus.
Police have arrested two suspects, aged 18 and 19.
A bit more:
Mr Sobolev is a businessman from Donetsk, a flashpoint of pro-Russian insurgency in Ukraine. In 2010-2011 he was an executive at Ukraine’s state energy company Naftogaz.
There have been several murders of well-known figures on the streets of Kiev since Russia annexed Crimea and a pro-Moscow rebellion flared up in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
The Russian oligarchs are not nice people. They want the Ukraine back again. It will be interesting to read about the current NATO meetings in London. President Trump is over there now.
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