Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst said on Oct. 24 that while Ukraine is winning one war, the one against Russia’s invasion, it is losing another one, the “non-fight against corruption,” as he put it.

Herbst, speaking to a gathering of the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council in Kyiv, blasted Ukrainian Pesident Petro Poroshenko for not firing Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. He noted that not only has Shokin failed to prosecute corrupt lawbreakers since coming to office as a presidential appointee in February, he has actually assisted corruption — along with the judiciary.