On November 10, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) exposed an alleged $110 million corruption scheme at state-owned nuclear company Energoatom. The charges are supported by a fifteen-month wiretap and over seventy searches carried out as part of a major investigation called Operation Midas.
According to NABU officials, the investigation uncovered a criminal enterprise run by Timur Mindich, a film producer and a former business partner of Zelenskyy. Additional suspects include former Minister of Energy and recently appointed Minister of Justice Herman Halushchenko; former Naftogaz CEO and Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Chernyshov; former Minister of Defense and current National Security and Defense Council member Rustem Umerov; and Ihor Myroniuk, former deputy head of the State Property Fund and former advisor to Halushchenko.
Mindich fled Ukraine the day before his premises were raided and is reportedly now in Israel.
Yet it pales in comparison to even one of trumps scandals. Did he rape kids?no. Did he suck a horse dick and get blackmailed by Putin? No. Did his daughter and son in law make tens of billions using their publicly appointed positions to make shady deals with Saudi Arabia, Israel and Russia? No. It seems to me that Russian agent bubba blower is trying to bolster media attention against Zelenskyy so he will fold to Russian demands and then nobody will see his horse blowing photos
Whataboutism
No it really just seems like an attempt to discredit Zelenskyy with our billion dollar propaganda machine at the same time that the USA is being run by a Russian agent but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.
A Russian agent
this shit reminds me of medieval serfs who would swear that the new, bad king is a puppet of the rival dynasty or the Pope or whatever. This Russian puppet thing was a masterstroke of propaganda, because it gave liberals, who were already American exceptionalists, the perfect excuse to substitute xenophobia for an actual critique of capitalism. Could Trump be a result of and manifestation of a rancid homegrown ideology that arose from the contradictions between the classes? No, he’s being controlled by the bad foreigners. Hell, I bet Hitler was a puppet of Rasputin, and the third reich was all just a Russian plot to weaken Germany .
Yes if we remove all evidence from the last ten years your theory seems plausible. Did Rasputin have a photo of Hitler blowing a horse? Did a troll farm out of Russia help get Hitler elected? Are you a bot? You can’t be serious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates_and_Russian_officials
“reportedly now in Israel.”
Eh. Just 110 million and Zelenskyy seems only tangentially involved. Wake me up when we find out he is friends with Epstein.
Good on the independent National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) for actually doing its job during wartime.
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Damn, now even the Atlantic Council is Russian propaganda? Will those perfidious rooskies stop at nothing?
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Thank god, you almost had to process an uncomfortable thought
It was clearly sarcasm.
I know, everything is now Russian propaganda.
Wikipedia posting the Ukraine source of this, means Wikipedia is now Russian-owned propaganda:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Anti-Corruption_Bureau_of_Ukraine#cite_note-50
And even GrapheneOS too. The project owner of GrapheneOS didn’t even specify which country because he was too afraid of the backlash, clearly he is now a Russian bot & GrapheneOS has become Russian for even telling us:
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/21819-impact-of-ongoing-war-on-grapheneos-development
Ukraine, like many of the former Soviet states, has always had corruption problems. At least they’re trying to work through them right now.
It’s crazy how predictable the .ml crowd is.
It’s like they’re all the same person because they censor anyone who challenges them.
Censorship is when you get made fun of for saying stupid things on the internet
It’s crazy how predictable the lib crowd is.
It’s like they’re all the same person because they all parrot NATO propaganda and try to silence anyone who challenges them, even in the small insignificant online spaces they have.
How exactly are they trying to work through them? With more corruption?
There has been a grassroots movement to stop corruption and it has made progress. The war has hampered this effort.
Is this grassroots movement in the room with us right now?
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Always? Or just since roughly 1991?
I mean they weren’t exactly a separate entity in the USSR. And before that, The Ottomans?
They were the Ukranian SSR tho, they had statehood
Loll
It’s true, though. The various SSRs and SFSRs had national autonomy while being part of an internationalist socialist economy.
I understand that this does not comport with the comic book version of history you wish to live in, but them’s the facts
Well that fucking sucks
Ukraine has always been corrupt AF
and people leave with mystery $$ and move to west Toronto.
Wow, propaganda on .ml? Whoever would have guessed. Go ahead and ban me now.
Yeah, imagine posting an article from the Soviet propaganda outlet checks notes Atlantic Council. Smh what a bunch of tankies on .ml which you for some reason haven’t bothered blocking yet despite hating us enough to go out of your way to make ad hominem troll comments on.
When western, pro-NATO outlets are forced to admit and report on ongoing corruption scandals in Ukraine, you really have to wonder how much overwhelming evidence it will take to convince you that something may be afoot in the Banderite-controlled Ukrainian government.
Sometimes I wonder if there is no limit, and these people will be the 21st century equivalent of the Southern “lost cause” people or the German “stabbed in the back” types
People generally operate by licensing themselves to believe what they want to. Until their material conditions force them into accepting reality, they will continue to license themselves purely to believe that which upholds their present worldview.
We all do this, to be clear, but understanding that process helps us understand our limitations.
Yeah, I never expected to unironically post an AtlanticCouncil link myself. Feels very dirty.
Atlantic Council
You know you’ve moved on to huffing the hard stuff when Atlantic Council, a literal American Department of War think tank, is too pro-Russian for your liking. But i mean, let’s be real. “Propaganda” to you people has always just meant “any evidence that runs counter to the reality I wish to cultivate”. Like when nazis running Ukraine was “just propaganda” until all the swastika and totenkopf pictures became too much to deny, at which point you just stopped talking about it.
no no no, you don’t get it. Putin has paid the US billionaire president (or blackmailed him, or charmed him, whatever), which means everyone aligned with the government is a Russian propagandist, unless they say exactly what I want to believe about the Aveng- I mean about Ukraine.
Which propaganda? The American effort to make the corruption seem less so; the people who want to end a horrible war and will try anything to stop it; or the people who sympathize with Russia?
Driven by our mission of “shaping the global future together,” the Atlantic Council is a nonpartisan organization that galvanizes US leadership and engagement in the world, in partnership with allies and partners, to shape solutions to global challenges.
Ukraine has a corruption issue, it was what drove the Ukrainian revolution a decade ago. And while great strides were made to eliminate some of it, it’s still an huge and important issue that is separate from the war
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