Klawe Rzeczy for BI
On a Monday in late September, Mike Pyle, the point man on President Joe Biden's National Security Council for international economic issues, sent his counterparts in Ukraine a four-page "working draft" he had written listing numerous reforms the White House expected Kyiv to make in return for continued financial assistance from the United States. These included beefed-up supervision of state-owned enterprises in the energy sector, as well as steps "to facilitate greater transparency and accountability during post-war reconstruction of Ukraine." The goal, in broad terms, was to curb the state-facilitated corruption that has long been a hallmark of Ukrainian governance.