For Volodymyr Zelensky, there is now a triple threat at home and abroad, writes columnist Colin Freeman. AFP via Getty Images

Gennady Druzhenko reckons that of the 1,000-odd fellow military recruits in his training camp, he is the only one who is there willingly.

The vast majority are conscripts, many of them old or unhealthy, press-ganged off the streets to plug the growing gaps in Ukraine’s front lines.

His comrades’ morale could not get much worse, but in the wake of the corruption scandal last week engulfing Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president , a new low has been reached.

“Some of these guys are nearly 60 and it’s a tragedy that they’re being mobilized anyway,” Druzhenko told The Telegraph. “But now we have this huge corruption scandal, where people in government are s

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