Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko shook up his faltering military Thursday, appointing a new defence minister and top general while speaking angrily about the years of decay and corruption that left the forces unable to deal effectively with the well-armed eastern insurgency. He won quick approval for his choice of former top police official Valery Heletey as defence minister, replacing Mikhailo Koval. He also tapped Lt. Gen. Viktor Muzhenko as chief of the military's general staff and Yury Kosyuk, an agriculture magnate and one of Ukraine's richest men, to oversee defence issues in the presidential administration and to help "purge the army of thieves and grafters." Accusations of corruption have been rife as Kyiv's operation against the rebels continues.
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