> and more corruption-free nation

I'm really rooting for Ukraine here, and it looks like they are well on their way to succeeding pushing Russia out.

But the corruption issue ... for this particular problem, old habits unfortunately die really, really hard.

When corruption has become interwoven into the fabric of a society the way it has in Ukraine, and for such a long time, rooting it out will be very, very hard.

This kind of stuff typically requires two generations to die out and a super strong, long-term political will.

I hope they'll pull it off, but it won't be easy.