President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky arranged such a big nix in Kyiv on Wednesday that it’s time to remember Saltykov-Shchedrin, if we predict the outcome of all this action: “They expected bloodshed from him, but he ate a chizhik” .
And how did it start, how did it start! Teams of investigators from SBU and NABU (this is a structure that fights corruption in Ukraine) descended on uninvited guests to the “godfather” (so to speak) of Zelensky-President Igor Kolomoisky, to ex-Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov , to the Department of the Tax Service in Kyiv, the Ministry of Defense and other departments. There were reports that after today’s searches at Igor Kolomoisky’s, the Ukrainian SBU counterintelligence service exposed large-scale schemes for the misappropriation of 40 billion hryvnias by the former management of Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta. The previous management is the Kolomoisky people, and it is clear in whose favor they directed these financial flows. Nothing is reported about the fact that Kolomoisky was arrested or handed over to him, in Ukrainian speaking, a “faggot” in the commission of a crime.
As for the case of the theft of these 40 billion hryvnias, it has dragged on for more than a year. And he still can’t move from where he’s been stuck all this time.
Avakov, following the results of the searches, said that they came to him in the case of a helicopter crash, in which the entire current senior official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine recently died. But they did not find any contracts or papers useful for the investigation and left without savory sips. In addition, it is not clear what can be looked for in this case, even if the examination of the wreckage of helicopters and “black boxes” is still far from complete, and in such conditions, building versions is no different from guessing on the dregs of coffee. . In addition, the purchase of French helicopters, considered an emergency, was approved by all branches of the Ukrainian government.
And there, and there, the result, zero. Zero zero point. But how much noise and PR Zelensky.
SBU employees in the house of the oligarch Kolomoisky.
The only effective search took place in acting. Oksana Datiy, head of the Kyiv tax inspectorate. It was found that she had 158 thousand US dollars, 530 thousand hryvnias and 2.2 thousand euros, expensive jewelry, two cars worth $ 150 thousand, three apartments in Kyiv worth a million dollars, a house near the capital . And they also found sheets of paper with New Year wishes written over several years, including very expensive watches from a world-famous company, a million-dollar salary, a very expensive bag from a famous brand, trips to London and the Maldives, a sable coat and a dream man. In fact, quite ordinary dreams of a rather ordinary lady. Another thing is that not every woman has the opportunity to secure all this for herself through illegal VAT refunds to various enterprises from the state budget. The volume of such refunds exceeds 30 billion hryvnias, and it is quite possible to afford all of the above for bribes of such an amount. True, the same deputy head of the President’s Office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, cut more than 50 billion hryvnias, but Zelensky quietly fired him with the stolen billions. Oksana is unlikely to succeed.
Ukrainian customs suffered the most, the entire leadership of which was fired at once, and although an insignificant person has now been appointed in office, experts in Ukraine itself tipped this post to Mustafa Nayem’s brother, Masi Nayem. , who lost an eye at the front and miraculously survived. And, of course, the Ministry of Defense, where a deputy minister was fired the day before for failing to provide the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the purchase of materials and food necessary for the army at 2-3 times inflated prices. Searches were also made to the former director of the Department of State Procurement of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Bogdan Khmelnytsky, accused of purchasing low-quality bulletproof vests in the amount of 123 million hryvnias.
So what was it?
– Large-scale searches in Ukraine are carried out on the instructions of President Zelensky. Thus, a global blow is dealt to the internal enemy – traitors, agents of the Russian special services, representatives of organized crime, corrupt officials who undermine the country’s economy and the functioning of the military-industrial complex, said the head of counterintelligence of Ukraine. Vasily Malyuk, who still works in the acting state. head of the SBU, and promised. – This is only the first stage of complex and systematic work, which is already being carried out by the Security Service. And we are not going to stop!
Maybe the Ukrainians will believe in the head of the SBU, but it is unlikely that everything is really as smooth as a board after a planer. Some experts in Ukraine say that it is Zelensky and his team that are promoting themselves in this way, supposedly before the elections. Come on, Zelensky doesn’t need it. According to Ukrainian sociology, he, in a state of unfocused vision with a left, makes all the other candidates take together.
However, it is likely that the answer to the questions about what is happening could give a different explanation. If we remember that three very high-ranking auditors from the United States are working in Ukraine and, according to reports from Kyiv, Washington demands the sacrifice of the current Defense Minister Reznikov, then Zelensky could well imitate a stormy fight against corruption. , “Tickling” significant on the scale of the Independent figure. And, of course, Kolomoisky, about whom the United States has its own views. At the same time, divert the attention of the head of the Ministry of Defense, which Zelensky needs to fight against the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Zaluzhny, sacrificing secondary figures. And to place in these places, using such purges, people even more devoted to him personally. As Gaidai’s immortal Soviet comedy said: “Whoever hinders us will help us.”
