"The resignation was supposed to ease public tension," Olena Shcherban, a deputy executive director at the Kyiv-based NGO Anti-Corruption Action Center, told the Kyiv Independent. "But will it solve the problem? We are still very far from that." "The resignation was supposed to ease public tension. But will it solve the problem? We are still very far from that." A number of experts have also mentioned other reasons that might have led to Kostin's dismissal, apart from the ongoing scandal.Although Kostin was appointed to the job as a loyalist of President Volodymyr Zelensky in 2022, the President's Office could have been unhappy with the prosecutor's decision to greenlight corruption cases against lawmakers from the president's party, according to Shcherban and Yury Nikolov, an investigative journalist who has exposed top-level corruption.The President's Office has also been reportedly unhappy with Kostin's frequent trips abroad, according to Oleksandr Lemenov, head of anti-corruption watchdog StateWatch.Lemenov and Nikolov also said, citing their sources, that Kostin had allegedly been wanting to resign himself.