💰 Ukraine raids home of billionaire in war-time anti-corruption crackdown

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KYIV, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Security services searched the home of one of Ukraine's most prominent billionaires on Wednesday, moving against a figure once seen as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's sponsor in what the authorities called a wartime anti-corruption purge. In an address overnight before the raids, he alluded to new anti-corruption measures in time for Friday's summit, which Kyiv sees as key to its hopes of one day joining the bloc - a more urgent goal since Russia's invasion almost a year ago. Kyiv disputes many of those claims and Reuters could not independently verify the full situation, but the locations of reported fighting clearly indicate incremental Russian advances

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