Transparency and open tenders will be the new hallmarks of Ukraine’s nearly $7 billion defense budget,

Transparency and open tenders will be the new hallmarks of Ukraine’s nearly $7 billion defense budget, promises Ivan Aparshyn, a 62-year-old defense expert seen as a future Zelenskiy Defense Minister. “We’re not going to continue with the practice of concealing expenses on some clandestine programs and obscure projects,” he writes on the campaign’s Obozrevatel blog. Referring to a sector equal to 5% of Ukraine’s GDP, he writes: “Everyone who is in some way involved in numerous semi-criminal schemes over fuel materials, or abuses in the supplies system of the Armed Forces, will not avoid holding responsibility.”