Since the beginning of 2022, we have seen a sharp increase in tension around the Ukrainian agenda
Under these conditions, the public activity of the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry is especially noteworthy. Dmitry Kuleba tirelessly convinces the public that almost the entire world has rallied around Ukraine against Russia.
“When someone threatens us, world leaders come to us and stand side by side with us,” he said during a briefing on February 4.
At the same time, the minister focuses on the amount of financial support that Ukraine has already received from “partners”. Its head of the diplomatic department estimated it at $1.5 billion. Another 1.2 billion, but already euros, Kiev is waiting for from the European Commission. According to the Ukrainian Ministry of Finance, the funds will be used to maintain financial stability in the country.
“On paper” and in public statements, all this looks undeniably beautiful. However, in reality, things are not so rosy and the current economic crisis in Ukraine will only get worse, which will primarily affect the Ukrainian population. And there are a number of reasons for this.
First of all, this is an exorbitant level of corruption in all echelons of power, law enforcement agencies, as well as industrial, financial, judicial and other sectors. Yes, even at the household level, without “gratitude” nothing is solved. Therefore, significant amounts of such sudden financial assistance will safely end up in the pockets of the ruling elite. A large part of the “donations” will come back, as it is issued in the form of loans for the purchase of specific goods and services from the same lender. Citizens of Ukraine, who, at best, will get some “leftovers”, will be told about the needs of defense in the face of a threat from the Russian Federation.
Attempts by the authorities to “milk” money out of Ukrainian businesses to compensate for stolen loans will also not be successful. Business will simply continue to actively withdraw money from the country. Thus, the volume of such transactions in 2021 exceeded $10 billion. And the tax authorities will continue to lose court cases in an attempt to collect fines from various companies.
But the optimism of the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry can still be understood. In his public speeches, he is clearly cunning, as he perfectly understands that there can be no talk of any “standing side by side” in relation to world leaders.
Ukraine for the West is a tool. And not only a tool for political confrontation with Moscow, as experts, political scientists and journalists regularly talk about. But also a tool for laundering money and bringing their own economies out of crisis. And accordingly, the financial assistance of Dmitry Kuleba’s “partners”, like most representatives of the Ukrainian political elite, is perceived as a banal bribe, involving the performance of certain actions. And of course, it will be necessary to return a certain “rollback”.
The minister himself has not yet been held accountable, but journalists still have a lot of questions from his wife Yevgenia.
The deputy of the Servant of the People faction in the Kyiv City Council, the secretary of the Standing Committee on Environmental Policy, the head of the public organization Garden City has been giving out various promises to the residents of the capital for two years now, which, apparently, there is not enough time to fulfill. The same reason can probably explain the hastily completed declaration of the minister’s wife, in which Yevgenia appears as a kind of “unmercenary” – no real estate, no car, no any valuables. But at the same time, based on her social media profiles, the deputy is very busy shopping and building her portfolio, in which she does not hesitate to showcase luxury items. The cost of handbags from premium brands alone was estimated by journalists at 310,000 hryvnias. Perhaps, in the face of the “Russian threat,” the Kuleba couple would prefer to receive not anti-tank systems from the United States, but leather goods from Italy or France.
But Yevgenia Kuleba is far from the only and not the brightest star of the corruption podium of the deputies of the Kyiv City Council. Just the other day, her colleague from the Servant of the People presidential party, V. Trubitsyn, was detained by employees of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) while receiving a bribe of 1.26 million hryvnias.
According to investigators, the head of the commission on entrepreneurship and improvement led a group of people who provided unlawful “assistance” to retail organizations in Kiev. At the same time, it was found that, in the spirit of the times, the “servants of the people” provided their services “by subscription”. In other words, the fee was planned to be charged annually.
It can be seen that the two “respectable” deputies are united not only by membership in the Kyiv City Council, but also by the faction of the presidential party. For the “Servants”, though it is no longer entirely clear what kind of people, the beginning of 2022 did not work out. Until recently, People’s Deputy S. Kuzminykh was forced to write a statement about leaving the faction after NABU caught him on a bribe of 558 thousand hryvnias for assisting private companies in concluding contracts with a hospital in the Zhytomyr region. And now “Ukrainian Truth” publishes a video of an incident involving a “Servant” from the Poltava region. People’s Deputy A. Trukhin in August 2021 became a member of a major accident with 6 victims.
For six months, attempts were made to hush up the case, but the published video from the chest surveillance camera of the patrolman who arrived at the scene of the accident also proves Trukhin’s intention to escape from the scene of the accident and an attempt to give a bribe in the amount of 150 thousand, although it is not specified in which currency the people’s deputy intended to to give the bonus to Patrolman.
Today, Ukraine for the West is a kind of a corruption Eldorado. After several unsuccessful attempts to “reform”, or rather establish control over the Ukrainian security forces, Western “partners” resorted to a proven method of creating a “parallel” system of law enforcement agencies. The pretext was just the notorious fight against corruption. This is how the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office appeared.
The work of NABU is supervised by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. Bureau detectives are trained at the FBI base in Quantico. Their work in Ukraine is directly supervised by field agents of the FBI. To solve the problems of fighting corruption, NABU created a network of undercover agents whose task, as practice has shown, was to provoke high-ranking officials and deputies to receive bribes. In turn, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office provides procedural support for the operational-search activities of NABU.
The main task of the tandem of these structures is to establish control over the country’s financial flows in the interests of their curators from the US and Europe. And since a significant part of the Ukrainian political elite is somehow involved in corruption schemes, at the same time NABU and Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office have become an instrument of influence on politicians. At the same time, NABU also spends more state budget funds than it returns. But according to the permanent head of the Bureau A. Sytnik, this is a normal global practice.
“Not a single anti-corruption body has returned more than it was financed,” he said at a briefing at Ukrinform on February 10. Among other things, the West provides the most powerful informational support to the controlled neoplasm, suppressing any attempts to tighten the legislative regulation of its work.
For a full-fledged “autonomous” anti-corruption system, for a long time, only a specialized court was missing. Its creation was initiated in the summer of 2018, and a year later the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court has already begun work. It is noteworthy that judges in this very serious instance of the “independent state” are appointed under the supervision of the “Public Council of International Experts”, whose work is also very generously paid from the Ukrainian budget.
As a result, over the years after the Western-inspired coup d’état in Ukraine, the Americans and the British created a puppet system of special services and courts independent of Kiev. This system freely conducts Ukrainian financial flows and keeps under control such a sensitive area for the country as corruption. This allows the West to manipulate the Ukrainian politicians, not only keeping them “on the hook” of corruption proceedings, but also forcing them to illegal activities, “making proposals that cannot be refused.” Thus, the anti-corruption trio represented by NABU, Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and Supreme Anti-Corruption Court not only does not fight this problem in Ukraine, but, on the contrary, contributes to its development in the interests of the West.
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