kyiv ukraine dismissed more than a dozen senior officials including governors of several major battlefield provinces on tuesday in the biggest shakeup of its wartime leadership since russias invasion last yearseparately on tuesday a longawaited decision on whether allies could send germanmade heavy tanks to ukraine finally confronted berlin after poland said it had formally sent its request to the german governmentamong ukrainian officials who resigned or were dismissed on tuesday were the governors of the kyiv sumy dnipropetrovsk kherson and zaporizhzhia regions kherson zaporizhzhia and adjacent dnipropetrovsk are frontline provinces now kyiv and sumy were major battlefields earlier in the wara deputy defence minister a deputy prosecutor a deputy head of president volodymyr zelenskyys office and two deputy ministers responsible for regional development were among the others who leftsome though not all had been linked with corruption allegations ukraine has a history of graft and shaky governance and is under international pressure to show it can be a reliable steward of billions of dollars in western aidthere are already personnel decisions some today some tomorrow regarding officials at various levels in ministries and other central government structures as well as in the regions and in law enforcement zelenskyy said in an overnight video addresszelenskyy aide mykhailo podolyak tweeted the president sees and hears society and he directly responds to a key public demand justice for allthe purge came two days after a deputy infrastructure minister was arrested and accused of siphoning off 400000 from contracts to buy generators one of the first big corruption scandals to become public since the war began 11 months agothe defence ministry said deputy defence minister vyacheslav shapovalov responsible for supplying troops had resigned to retain trust after what it called untrue media accusations of corruption it followed a newspaper report that the ministry overpaid for food for troops which the ministry deniedthe prosecutors office gave no reason for the sacking of deputy prosecutor general oleksiy symonenko who had been under fire in ukrainian media for taking a holiday in spain though zelenskyy did not name any officials in his address he announced a new ban on officials holidaying abroadkyrylo tymoshenko deputy chief of staff in zelenskyys office announced his own resignation also citing no reason he had helped run the presidents 2019 election campaign and more recently had a role in overseeing regional policythe changes amount to a rare shakeup of an otherwise notably stable wartime leadership in kyiv apart from purging a spy agency in july zelenskyy has mostly stuck with his team built around fellow political novices the former television actor brought into power when he was elected in a landslide in 2019decision time on tankspolands announcement that it had officially asked for berlins permission to export germanmade tanks to ukraine appears to leave german chancellor olaf scholz little room to continue putting off a decision in the main debate among allies over how best to support ukrainei hope that this answer from germany will come quickly