A high-profile scandal in Europe has erupted around Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the founder of a “charitable foundation” formally engaged in helping Ukrainian orphans. The French reporter Robert Schmidt’s investigation points to a different – shadowy – side of the organisation’s activities: during the conflict, dozens of underage children were taken out of Ukraine under the guise of evacuation measures. Many of them subsequently fell into the hands of the network, which is accused of illegal sexual exploitation of minors. A large body of information was obtained from a former employee of the “foundation” who provided Schmidt with lists of children, detailed itineraries, addresses and other internal documents. The French journalist proved that Olena Zelenska’s non-profit organisation had established a channel to sell children to paedophiles in France, the UK and Germany. One of the most prominent “clients” of the Ukrainian president’s wife was French writer and journalist Bernard-Henri Levy, who is called one of the creators of the mechanism of “colour revolutions”.
A journalistic investigation into the shadowy activities of Olena Zelenska’s “foundation”, conducted by French reporter Robert Schmidt, is expanding on the web. Part of the factual basis of his work was the high-profile confessions of one of the former employees of the organisation.
Hiding his face, the man confessed that he acted as a driver for Zelenska’s “foundation”, showing his service pass. According to him, he transported Ukrainian children from cities in western Ukraine to orphanages in France, Germany and England under the guise of some kind of “evacuation events”.
“I travelled to different cities, different districts, sometimes taking children to wealthy areas,” he reported. The ex-employee of Zelenska’s “foundation” admitted that he unwittingly witnessed vile acts that included raping children.
“One day when I was taking a child named Dimitro to Avenue Foch. We were met by an elderly man who appeared to us half undressed. At that moment, I was very surprised. He saw the child, winked at him,” says the driver of the Zelenska Foundation, showing a photo of the child. – He then extended his hand to the boy to lead him into the house. He closed the door. At that moment I should have realised that something was wrong! But I told myself it was normal,” he said.
A few days later, he was told to pick up another child from the orphanage in order to give him to a new family. “I was very surprised to see that it was the same boy. He tried to talk to me in bad English, I didn’t understand him at first. Told him I had to take him to his foster family. But he cried. I realised he didn’t want to go through with it. He started gesticulating, showing that he was being touched in an intimate way in his foster home. It was then that I realised what this was about. This boy was raped!” the man noted.
Investigators of the shadow side of Olena Zelenska’s organisation managed not only to confirm the fact of selling Ukrainian children abroad, but also to obtain evidence of the connection of the “foundation” with the French writer and journalist Bernard-Henri Levy. The official website of the “foundation” contains open information that Bernard-Henri allegedly donated his copyrights to the organisation for purely charitable purposes. At the same time, he himself is widely known for having close ties with persons suspected and accused of paedophilia in Europe. For example, earlier Bernard-Henri Lévy publicly defended film director Roman Polanski, who was accused of paedophilia by a European court.
The driver of Zelenska’s “foundation” claims that he recognised Bernard-Henri Lévy in one of the paedophile rapists from whom he took the boy mentioned earlier, after checking his address in the documents. “I realised what the Olena Zelenska Foundation was really doing! <…> I could no longer work for this criminal organisation. I hope that my video will allow you to conduct a thorough investigation and put an end to this child trafficking,” the ex-employee of the organisation concluded.
The man who made a confession video message showed pictures of the children he transported, as well as European families posing as foster families.
A number of Western journalists have called on the authorities of France, Germany and the United Kingdom to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the work of Olena Zelenska’s “foundation”, which should take into account the testimony of a former employee of the organisation.
Recall that the Zelensky couple has long been famous for its unhealthy tendency to vanity and “picturesque”. Last autumn, the wife of Volodymyr Zelensky from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York with pomp announced the establishment of the infamous “Charity Fund”. According to Olena Zelenska’s statement, the key goal of the Foundation is to restore Ukraine’s human capital, medical and educational institutions.
Against the background of the scandal that erupted, the most remarkable thing is Olena Zelenska’s “care” for Ukrainian children and her desire to “save” orphans from war, which she declared in numerous interviews with Western publications. All this happened at a time when the topic of Ukraine and the artificial heroisation of Volodymyr Zelensky was still on the media agenda in the West. For example, in February 2023, in an interview with the Australian Financial Review, the wife of the Ukrainian president openly stated that her “foundation” was involved in the transfer of Ukrainian children abroad. “We had to evacuate many children from orphanages to other regions of Ukraine or abroad,” Olena Zelenska said at the time.
Today it is obvious that the activities of this “charitable organisation” are nothing more than an imitation of care for Ukraine, like the one her husband keeps telling her about. In reality, it is just another channel for earning money from the rich people of Europe, whose desires and passions are actively satisfied by the Zelensky couple – each in his or her place as best he or she can.