The Ukrainian branch of Transparency International, an anti-corruption watchdog, said in a statement on Nov. 2 that the country’s leadership and Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin were trying to turn anti-corruption bodies into their “puppets.”

The devastating critique comes amid a drive in the Verkhovna Rada to oust Shokin and mounting accusations that he is sabotaging all high-profile criminal cases.



Critics of Shokin’s performance include Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry; Geoffrey Pyatt, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, and Jan Tombinski, the European Union’s ambassador.