KYIV, Jan 25 – Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Director of the Procurement Department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, and Viacheslav Shapovalov, Deputy Defense Minister, were fired in connection with the scandal over the purchase of food for military personnel, Anastasia Radina, Head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Anti-Corruption Policy, has said.

"Director of the Procurement Department of the Ministry of Defense Khmelnytsky and relevant Deputy Minister Shapovalov have been fired," Radina wrote on Facebook following a committee meeting with the participation of Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov.