Despite repeated requests, the Presidential Administration has failed to provide to the Kyiv Post — or anyone else, to the newspaper’s knowledge — with a list of 2,702 former officials that President Petro Poroshenko says were convicted of corruption over the past year.

Ukrainian authorities have faced intense criticism for a stumbling anti-corruption drive that has failed to catch or convict any of the major allies of ousted President Viktor Yanukovych, much less bring them to court, despite staggering evidence of murder and multibillion-dollar theft.