Vitaly Shabunin, head of the Anti-Corruption Action Center’s executive board, said on March 9 that the State Investigation Bureau had launched criminal cases against him for alleged draft evasion and forgery. Shabunin, who joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a volunteer at the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022 and has served since then, denied the accusations and said the cases were fabricated. He believes the cases to be a political vendetta against him by President Volodymyr Zelensky’s deputy chief of staff Oleh Tatarov. Shabunin has regularly criticized Tatarov, who was ch…