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Money is also difficult to be pilfered. It's not like they're sending Ukraine suitcases stuffed with cash!

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"Money is also difficult to be pilfered."

I'm afraid we're going to have to agree to disagree on that one.

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It's in bank accounts. They have to account for how they spend it.

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If it were only that easy to prevent theft/money laundering, that all you had to do was place the money in bank accounts. I don't know what to tell you except that you're being hopelessly naive here. My best regards to you.

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Money laundering is about profits from criminal activity, that has nothing to do with money being provided by the US government.

If you're saying that the Ukrainians might be spending the money they got wastefully, or with some degree of corruption - probably yes. But they're having a robust debate about it and taking steps to improve the situation. And no country is free from that problem.

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No country is free from that problem, but Ukraine is way more corrupt than Western or even Central Europe. Ask any Ukrainian if you don't believe it.

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Between us and Russia, Ukraine is definitely closer to us than to Russia on a corruption scale, though.

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It's nice that you're so pro-Ukrainian, but it would be also nice if your pro-Ukrainian-ness had some contact with reality. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index

Russia: 28, Ukraine: 33, Central Europe>=42 (Hungary: 42, Slovakia: 53, Poland: 55, Czechia: 56), Western Europe>=60 (Spain)

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This isn't "reality", it's somebody's opinion.

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That "somebody" is Transparency International, which has been researching this for several decades. How much experience of corruption in Poland *and* Ukraine *and* Russia do you have to be able to make statements that clearly contradict their conclusions? Or is it just that your conviction is so strong that no evidence could change it?

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These numbers actually confirm our opinion Ukraine is between Russia and Central Europe. Also, they come from before the war. The war - for all its evils - did a lot to eradicate corruption sources in Ukraine. First: finally it was possible to disband criminal organizations registered as "political parties" (and enjoying protetion as such, but not actually participating in politics). Second: it was possible to get rid of the worst, Russia-connected oligarchs such as Medvedchuk. In general, Russian connection always increases corruption - in Poland we also had less and less corruption as we gravitated towards NATO/EU.

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