There have been suspicious fires in Russia recently, and some are out of range of Ukrainian weapons systems. So what’s going on?
Oleksiy Arestovych, a military adviser to [Ukrainian President] Zelensky, said he doubted Ukraine was involved in the fires at the defense-related facilities and suggested that Russian officials are setting fires to cover up evidence of corruption.
“I think you need to look for reasons inside Russia — for example, hiding the means by which money has been stolen from the Russian defense ministry,” he said. [WaPo]
Sure, it’s a convenient excuse in case these are examples of Ukrainian sabotage, but it’s also quite plausible. The problem of corruption isn’t some offense against an arbitrary morality, but rather a set of rules which, when broken for selfish reasons, result not only in benefit, fleeting as it may be, for the criminal, but quite serious damage for the offendee.
That’s why corruption should never be tolerated, on the right or the left.
