Resignations on 24 January 2023 and Ukraine's anti-corruption drive
A look back at a day when senior officials left their posts as a nationwide anti-corruption campaign began.
What does a national anti-corruption campaign look like when it begins? On 24 January 2023, in Ukraine, it looked like a wave of resignations among senior officials.
As reported at the time, the departures came after the launch of a nationwide anti-corruption campaign. Among those who stepped down was Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine. Four deputy ministers also resigned, as did five regional governors.
The list spanned the presidential office, ministries and the regions, so the effects of the campaign were visible at several levels of government on a single day. Ukrainian-language reports from the same day described the same group: a deputy head of the presidential office, four deputy ministers and five heads of regional authorities who submitted their resignations once the campaign got under way.
The reports of 24 January 2023 tied the departures directly to the start of the campaign.
