Oleksandr Vlasov, State Fiscal Service commissioner, fired on Tuesday the heads of the four customs offices bordering the EU – Volyn, Lviv, Zakarpattia, and Chernivtsi.

Oleksandr Vlasov, State Fiscal Service commissioner, fired on Tuesday the heads of the four customs offices bordering the EU – Volyn, Lviv, Zakarpattia, and Chernivtsi. At the same time, President Zelenskiy ordered measures to modernize customs and to cut corruption. One step would synchronize data bases with neighboring countries. Maxim Nefyodov, the new head of the Customs Service, cites a typical case: Eurostat shows imports of €160 million in shoes from Ukraine in 2018. Ukraine’s Customs Service reports exports of €40 million