Zelensky calls to remove justice, energy ministers over corruption scandal

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday called on his justice and energy ministers to resign over a sweeping corruption scandal in the country's war-battered energy sector.

Zelensky said his Justice Minister German Galushchenko, who investigators say was involved in the scheme and received "personal benefits", as well Energy Minister Svitlana Grynchuk should tender their resignations. The government had earlier suspended Galushchenko, who was energy minister until earlier this year, but he is not yet known to have been charged.

Grynchuk, who took over the energy ministry in July, said earlier that Energoatom, the state nuclear operator at the centre of the investigation, was cooperating with the investigators.