As Russia’s renewed attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure cause rolling blackouts ahead of winter, a major embezzlement and kickbacks scandal involving the state-owned nuclear power company has put top officials under scrutiny.

KYIV (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for the dismissal of two cabinet ministers on Wednesday amid a probe into an alleged $100 million corruption scheme involving a former associate that has fuelled fresh public anger at Kyiv's wartime government.

Ukraine Justice Minister German Galushchenko was suspended in a corruption probe into state energy company Energoatom that includes Zelenskyy ally Timur Mindich.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for the dismissal of two cabinet ministers on Wednesday amid a probe into an alleged $100 million corruption scheme involving a former associate that has fuelled fresh public anger at Kyiv's wartime government.

Ukraine’s justice and energy ministers submitted their resignations amid a major embezzlement and kickbacks scandal involving the state nuclear power company

Ukraine’s nuclear energy company says its operations remain unaffected by a major corruption investigation into the country's power sector. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau is probing

Ukrainian Energy Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk has formally submitted her resignation due to a corruption scandal. "I request that my resignation from the post of energy minister of Ukraine be accepted," she wrote in a hand-written resignation letter published on Facebook on Wednesday.