On this day in January 2023, Yuri Nikolov couldn't believe it. This investigative journalist had received a copy of a 320 million euro contract a few days earlier from a source showing that the Ukrainian army was purchasing products at inflated prices. This was not the first time that Yuri found evidence of wrongdoing. Since 2010, his organization, Nashi Hroshi (“our money” in Ukrainian), has aimed to highlight the misappropriation of public funds by analyzing public procurement calls made by the Ukrainian state.
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But, in twenty years of career, the investigator had never had to face such a dilemma. Was it necessary to publish at the risk of compromising Western support for the Ministry of Defense, and therefore for the Ukrainian population?
Everything will come out one day or another, so it's better to tackle the problem head on rather than burying your head in the sand.
Yuri Nikolov
“Everything will come out one day or another, so it's better to tackle the problem head-on rather than burying your head in the sand,” the reporter, met in his Kiev office by
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