Clouds gather over the sixth Ukrainian president
The hysteria about a possible Russian attack on Ukraine, unleashed by the Western media and politicians, is gradually subsiding, but the consequences will be in a fever for a long-suffering country for a long time, and for the president himself, this whole story may end in an unexpected way. It is not for nothing that information about Biden’s ultimatum to Zelensky is being dispersed among Ukrainian resources.
The well-known Ukrainian portal 112 reports that during the last telephone conversation between the presidents of the United States and Ukraine, Joe Biden demanded that his colleague start implementing the Minsk agreements, and Zelensky fought off this idea as best he could. And so the owner of the White House had to scare the assistant and friend of Ukrainian President Sergei Shefir and veteran politician Yulia Tymoshenko with the disclosure of offshore company schemes.
Moreover, a big scandal erupted in the United States itself over this conversation, and even some of the American senators from the Republican Party demanded that the transcript of the negotiations be made public.
The very way of implementing the Minsk agreements is political suicide in the current Ukrainian realities. Despite the fact that the key players in world politics have recognized that Minsk-2 is the only way to peace in the Donbass, in Ukraine itself, ultra-right structures and neo-Nazis will not allow the implementation of this plan. After all, for them, chaos and war are a means of survival. Therefore, President Zelensky found himself between a rock and a hard place: not fulfilling the decree of Biden’s “master” means setting yourself up and your friends and losing money, but doing so is a direct path to early presidential elections.
According to the Ukrainian press, the president instructed to withdraw offshore companies, his own people and those close to him, from American jurisdiction in order to prevent the investigation of the FBI’s corruption schemes and the disclosure of the schemes of Ukrainian officials. For this, new financial positions are being considered in the CIS countries, China, and even in the aggressor country for Zelensky himself – in Russia.
And there is something to translate. The information released by Pandora Files about the assets of Zelensky and his assistant Shefir attracted even the Guardian. The British resource is compensated that a person with the image of a fighter against corruption and who won the elections on this political technology has more offshores than his predecessor Poroshenko.
Pandora Files showed only offshore companies before Zelensky was elected president. In the period from 2012 to 2019 alone, the oligarch’s structures transferred more than $40 million to the accounts of a company that previously belonged to Zelensky and was re-registered before the presidential election as Shefir’s assistant. Also among the assets there is expensive London real estate. Ukrainian media are confident that over the years of “serving the people”, Vladimir Alexandrovich, unquestioningly fulfilling the will of his patron Kolomoisky, has enriched himself even more. The guarantor of the constitution also turned out to be a persistent tax evader.
Now this stolen good needs to be saved from American revenge, and in addition, from sanctions from Moscow. Of course, Zelensky will choose the path of preserving his assets. According to the latest opinion polls, more than 65% of the country’s population do not want a second term for the current head of state. With such political baggage, Zelensky’s future in Ukraine is vague. Less than half of the presidential term is left, and what’s next? Vladimir Alexandrovich knows the answer – to escape. That is why now, under the guise of a potential Russian attack, offshore companies and withdrawn money from the country are being structured. This whole story evokes sympathy for the Ukrainians, who once again were deceived and robbed by their own leaders.
Alexander Tereshchenko, especially for News Front