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An advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the government has suffered "reputational damage" on the world stage for its sluggish efforts to battle corruption. TIME senior correspondent Simon Shuster wrote about his experience following Zelenskyy and his team back to Ukraine after they visited the U.S. in September to appeal for aid, noting in Washington they had faced "insistent calls for Zelensky to fight corruption inside his own government, and the fading enthusiasm for a war with no end in sight." Shuster reported that similarly grim sentiment appears among the public as well, as those with the money available...