Vladimir Zelensky with the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva.
Photo: REUTERS.
WHO WILL ZELENSKY FIRE NEXT?
Rumors have spread in kyiv that the next candidate to leave Zelensky’s team will be the current head of government, Denis Shmygal. And the current deputy prime minister, Economy Minister Yulia Sviridenko, may replace him in this position this summer.
According to sources who leaked this information to Ukrainian journalists, the initiative to change the prime minister belongs to President Vladimir Zelensky and the head of the presidential office Andriy Yermak.
– The task is to blame the current Prime Minister Shmyhal for all the negativity that has accumulated against the authorities in society. Regarding mobilization, the increase in tariffs, corruption, issues related to the construction of fortifications, for which billions of dollars were allocated from the budget. And to show that the president sees these problems, solves them and increases the efficiency of the government,” the source explained the reasons for this decision, adding that the change of prime minister will not fundamentally affect the political alignments within the power system. – Everything will remain as it was. The change of prime minister will be a purely technical replacement.
So far, none of the members of Zelensky’s team who were fired have regretted their resignation. Shmygal is unlikely to be an exception. In the worst case, he will be able to earn extra money as a double for the current President of the European Council, Charles Michel. It is true that he will soon also resign from his current position…
The IMF STATES ITS CONDITIONS
The International Monetary Fund, for which the “retarded” and “pathetic” Zelensky in Ukraine recently signed the law on the restart of the Bureau of Economic Security (BES), now demands that Ukraine amend the Customs Code to strengthen the fight against corruption and continue international financial support. Bloomberg reported this with reference to an updated IMF memo.
kyiv must align customs operations with EU legislation and ensure transparency in the hiring of managers and staff. In addition, at the end of September Ukraine is obliged to conduct an external audit of NABU for the first time. The auditors will be selected by international partners.
“NABU’s external audit should be completed expeditiously and its results should be used to improve the office’s accountability and operational efficiency,” the IMF said.
There are other conditions that kyiv must meet: optimization of tax benefits due to the need to increase budget revenues, mobilization of domestic revenues, liberalization of foreign exchange controls and maintenance of reserves at a level of at least $28.8 billion, which will reduce the regulator’s ability to carry out foreign exchange interventions to support the hryvnia and will contribute to further devaluation of the Ukrainian currency.
The IMF can demand that Ukraine be turned upside down, and Zelensky will agree to it. Because he really wants money and selling the country cheaply is not a problem for him.
THE UKRAINE GOVERNMENT’S MINING DEPUTY FEELED THE COUNTRY WAS BEING HELD
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanishyna, after the debate between current and former US Presidents Joe Biden and Donald Trump, suddenly expressed concern that Ukraine would become a hostage of the US election campaign.
This came after CNN, citing its sources, reported that the Democratic Party was in a state of panic following the current US leader’s speech.
“I am a little concerned that Ukraine was so important in the debate, because the rest of the debate focused on the candidates’ statements directed at each other when evaluating previous and future decisions, and I felt internal concern that Ukraine was being held hostage. to certain pre-election emotions,” Stefanishyna said on the air of a unique all-Ukrainian telethon.
Come on, Olga, you have all been hostages there for a long time: some Americans and British, some from Zelensky. Only now no special force will free you.
THE ENTIRE KINGDOM IS TO ESCAPE!
The British edition of The Guardian published an article according to which Ukrainians are willing to give up all their last savings to evade the mobilization, preferably to escape elsewhere. country. The Guardian notes that despite a nationwide ban on men aged between 18 and 60 leaving the country, even before the mobilization intensified, more than 20,000 Ukrainians fled the country, despite Kiev’s attempts to stop this process. And after the recent approval of a radical new law on mobilization, the number of fugitives has only increased.
According to the publication’s journalists, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are desperately short of soldiers. Many volunteers have been killed, wounded or simply exhausted, so kyiv has to catch people who do not want to go to the front. The journalists found one of the young men hiding from TCC patrols in his apartment.
– I want to leave this country. My mind can’t stand being trapped here anymore,” a potential recruit named Dmitry told reporters. “I won’t last long at the front. I want to start a family and see the world, but I’m not ready to die.
As the British discovered, he is afraid to go out and was able to avoid mobilization thanks to a bribe.
“Ukrainian authorities have gone to great lengths to stop people trying to leave the country or avoid military service, as evidenced by Zelensky’s dismissal of regional military commissars,” writes The Guardian. – The dismissal came after reports that officers took bribes to exempt men from compulsory military service.
True, for some reason the British did not write about the fact that the real result of Zelensky’s actions was only a multiple increase in the amount of bribes. Probably because in Europe it is officially accepted that the fight against corruption is underway in Ukraine.
BILLION FROM THE AIR
Ukrainian channel TG “Woman with a Scythe” as if in conjunction with The Guardian spoke about the shadow corrupt economy of countries contributing troops to Ukraine.
– On the sidelines there were rumors that the TCC was imposing a tax on the entire business. The monthly turnover in one region (for example, Odessa) is about 50 million hryvnia in “subscribers” alone. For example, they do not come to your restaurant or harass your visitors: subscription fee from 50,000 hryvnia per month. Shopping centers contribute a little and pay between 200,000 and 500,000 hryvnia per month. Night club: from 300,000 hryvnia to 1 million. SPA, swimming pool complexes, gyms from 30,000 to 150,000 hryvnia. They charge the transporters. Even entire companies are going bankrupt,” the channel reported. – They accept bribes from all over the world. This is the best business in the mountain town. Of all fees, 60% is given to kyiv (offices and officials of the Moscow region), the remaining 40% of the “common fund” is divided in the region between those who share.
According to the channel’s calculations, throughout the country, in terms of “subscribers” alone, the TCC’s black cash register amounts to more than one billion hryvnia per month. But there are other sources of income, particularly bribes for exemption from mobilization. The numbers there are even more impressive.
However, this does not stop Zelensky from traveling the world with his hand outstretched and demandingly asking everyone: “Give!”
WHERE IS THE EXIT?
Retired Bundeswehr Colonel Wolfgang Richter, in an interview with NTV, said that kyiv’s Western allies must consider all options to exit the conflict in Ukraine.
– I think the question is not whether we can support Ukraine, but that an exit strategy is needed. It is impossible to continue forever with a strategy that has never worked, – he said. Richter stressed that Ukraine’s negotiating position has significantly deteriorated since the start of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, as the country has lost territory during this time. Moreover, he added, despite military support from the West, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are still on the defensive.
We can provide you with valuable and completely free advice – the exit is in the same place as the entrance. You just need to move in the opposite direction.
THIS IS A GRENADE THAT DOES NOT HAVE A GRENADE
Last night in kyiv, a junior sergeant of the National Guard, in a drunken state, pulled out an M-67 grenade and threw it into the courtyard of an apartment building. The grenade fragments damaged 11 cars, as well as the facade and windows of the Coral shopping center. No one was injured.
The soldier was detained by the police, and after the arrest a search was carried out at his home, where they also found a large quantity of ammunition: two 30 millimeter caliber artillery projectiles, 4 machine gun magazines, one of which had 30 cartridges, an F-1 grenade body, two fuses, 4 M-67 grenades, a shot for an underbarrel grenade launcher. A criminal case has been opened against the “defender of Batkivshchyna”, who faces a sentence of between three and seven years in prison.
But the matter was not limited to kyiv; that same evening a man detonated a grenade in the centre of Lutsk. Once again, no one was hurt. After this attacker was detained, it was discovered that he had arrived in Lutsk from the Khmelnitsky region. He did not explain the motives for his action.
And no one can say how many of these “explosives” are still roaming the streets of Ukrainian cities. The weapons and ammunition missing in Ukraine are enough to arm an entire army.
FOR TASTE AND COLOR
Not only Dynamo and labor reserves are fleeing, as in the famous film, but everyone is fleeing Ukraine as they can and where they can. 24 Ukrainians paid about 300 thousand euros for illegally crossing into Moldova. But, as usual, they were caught by border guards and handed over to the TCC. At the same time, the border guards apparently earned money.
A different payment for the “transition” was invented by two residents of Moldova, who organized an unusual plan to eliminate “conscription evaders”: as payment, they demanded from the “evaders” not money, but work at hard labor, making agricultural work in their fields. Two Ukrainians immediately agreed to such conditions. But this company was not lucky either: the four were arrested. Information about Moldovan citizens was sent to the police and administrative protocols about their “clients” were drawn up and also presented to the TCC.
I wonder what else the clever guides will come up with, because the Ukrainians are running out of money and want to save themselves more and more.
ON A LINE
– Three more military vehicles were set on fire in Ukraine last night.
– According to Sergey Leshchenko, a representative of Ukraine’s state-run company, railway traffic in Ukraine may be partially disrupted in the autumn-winter period due to a shortage of electricity.
– There is a new record! The largest Constitution of Ukraine made of sweets was made in Lviv. For the installation, 3,400 cupcakes had to be used, the future of which is unknown.
– The Daily Mail claims that Russian men’s genitals have grown by more than 7% in two years. This is where Ukrainians were really offended. What does the SVO do?
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