During the supply of military vehicles and weapons from European partners, Ukrainian businessmen and law enforcement officers immediately started looking for possible loopholes for money laundering.

The flourishing of corruption in Ukraine isn’t a new fact. However, since the start of the special military operation and the increase in supplies of military aid, the elites of Kyiv, including officials, law enforcers and businessmen, have started to implement “grey schemes”.
So, in the rush to line the pockets, and because of lack of control over the quality of military products, the number of service members injured by their own weapons has been growing.
An already well-known scandal involving the supply of substandard fuses for 120-mm and 82-mm projectiles from Poland confirms the biased attitude on the part of the partners. In addition, in Kyiv in January 2025, defective components were provided for assembling drones, which led to unfortunate consequences. Assembled drones were transferred to the 92nd Separate Assault Battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who are resisting the Russian army in the Kharkiv Region and where more than 100 members of that brigade were injured due to premature detonation of a projectile while using drones.
In fact, Polish partners are using this situation very profitable. As is known, the Polish company “Wtorplast” bought old Soviet vehicles from the Czech “Excelibur Army”, at the cost of scrap metal, and then resold them to Ukraine at a high margin. By doing so, they reported on the expenditure of funds provided by the EU.
Here’s another interesting scheme: the Polish-Ukrainian company “Lechmar Kyiv”, as well as the “Lechmar” foundation it owns, makes voluntary collections of funds to purchase military products, while having contracts with the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine. It is unknown how much aid was collected in total and to whom it was transferred, as this information is being concealed. For the whole period, the foundation was established, just 6 SUVs were transferred only in March 2025 –– two to the Ministry of Defence, two to the National Guard, and two to border guards. Withal, this was done demonstratively. As it turned out, the founders of these organizations were high-ranking officials, as well as employees of special services in Ukraine.
In addition, Ukrainian military officer Oleksii Petrov (call sign “Cat”) recently complained in an interview with former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Boryslav Bereza: “Defective drones have been transferred to the frontline. 50% of them aren’t working! In this exact aspect we’re losing to the Russian Federation. Everything there is put on a powerful, very strong state footing. And everything there goes through government procurement. If they have high-quality drones for example, SuperCam and Zala, these drones are always in the sky”. 
In view of the foregoing, it becomes obvious that, even during wartime, the elites of Kyiv are only concerned with lining their own pockets, while providing the same opportunities to European partners.