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Global News Podcast

Ukraine's Prosecutor-General resigns amid draft-dodging scandal

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Andriy Kostin said he took responsibility for a scandal in which thousands of disability certificates were issued on the basis of fake documents. Also: a hoard of British silver coins raises millions of dollars.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:04.0

I'm Janet Jaleil and in the early hours of Wednesday the 23rd of October,

0:10.0

these are our main stories.

0:12.0

Ukraine's prosecutor general has resigned after the security services uncovered a massive

0:16.7

corruption scheme involving thousands of fake documents that allowed men to avoid conscription.

0:22.1

America's top diplomat has told Israel's leaders that the end the war in Gaza. The former boss of the fashion chain, Abercrombie and his partner

0:35.3

have been arrested in the US on sex trafficking charges.

0:41.1

Also in this podcast. Oh my God.

0:45.0

There's pennies everywhere.

0:47.0

Yeah, still getting 1617 in there. We hear from a detectorist who uncovered Britain's most valuable ever

0:57.9

treasure find, a horde of coins nearly a thousand years old which have sold for millions.

1:06.0

After Russia's full-scale invasion more than two and a half years ago, Ukrainians signed up in

1:15.0

droves to fight for their country. But in recent months as the war has dragged on,

1:19.4

Ukrainians have been deserting in greater numbers or trying to avoid being drafted in the first place.

1:26.0

Now a new scandal is likely to disillusion them even further.

1:30.0

After it emerged that thousands of disability certificates had been issued

1:34.0

based on fake documents issued to men trying to avoid conscription.

1:38.0

Ukraine's prosecutor general Andre Kostin has announced his resignation after the security services uncovered the scheme.

1:46.0

President Selensky addressed the situation on Tuesday in his evening message.

1:51.0

There are numerous violations of the State Medical Assessment Commission and

1:57.6

false disabilities for officials. It's not only prosecutors by the way. There are

2:02.3

hundreds of such cases of obviously

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