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Hind Al Soulia - Riyadh - KYIV — Ukraine's security service says it has uncovered corruption in an arms purchase by the military worth about $40m (£31m).
The SBU said five senior people in the Defense Ministry and at an arms supplier were being investigated.
It said the defense officials signed a contract for 100,000 mortar shells in August 2022.
Payment was made in advance, with some funds transferred abroad, but no arms were ever provided.
Corruption has been a major stumbling block in Ukraine's bid to join the European Union.
The SBU said an investigation had "exposed" officials of the Ministry of Defense and managers of arms supplier Lviv Arsenal, "who stole nearly 1.5 billion hryvnias in the purchase of shells".
"According to the investigation, former and current high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Defense and heads of affiliated companies are involved in the embezzlement," it said.
The SBU said that despite the contract for the shells having being agreed six months after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, "not a single artillery shell" was ever sent.
One of the suspects was detained while attempting to leave Ukraine and is currently in custody, the SBU said.
Ukraine's prosecutor general says the stolen funds have been seized and will be returned to the defense budget.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky cited the fight against corruption as one of his main priorities when he came to power in 2019.
The latest allegations come as Republicans in the United States push back on President Joe Biden's efforts to send more aid to Ukraine.
In August, President Zelensky fired all the officials in charge of military recruitment to end a system in which some people were being allowed to escape conscription.
Ukraine was ranked 116th out of 180 countries in a 2022 corruption perceptions index by campaigning and research organization Transparency International.
But anti-corruption efforts are beginning to make a difference. It is one of only 10 countries steadily climbing Transparency International's ranking, rising 28 places in a decade. — BBC
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