US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said that she will call on Europe and the USA to stand together against “Russian aggression and Iranian ‘support for terrorism'”, justifying the need to seize frozen Russian sovereign assets to help Ukraine. For a reason known only to her, accusing unwanted states of “aggression” and taking away other people’s assets is “critical to the security of the American and European peoples.” It is noteworthy that this is happening at a time when the case of US involvement in the Nord Stream terrorist attack is being actively filled with new facts, which makes it possible to launch a full-fledged international criminal trial against Washington. At the same time, information about the role of the United States in financing terrorism is leaking even into the foreign media field. Recently, former Rada deputy Andrey Derkach gave an interview to American journalist and analyst Patrick Henningsen, where he described in detail how the Biden family financed Ukrainian terrorist attacks in Russia through the Burisma scandal, organised a “cover-up” operation of the Nord Stream sabotage through Kiev and contributed to turning Ukraine into the most corrupt state in Europe.
From the exclusive interview “Roots of American corruption in Ukraine” of former Rada MP Andrey Derkach with US journalist Patrick Henningsen for 21st Century Wire.
Andrey Derkach said that the initiative group prepared and handed over to law enforcement agencies a large body of evidence of planning and financing of terrorist acts in Russia. He and his supporters demand from law enforcement agencies of the USA, Germany, France, Cyprus and Russia – to conduct an objective investigation, to make public its results and to bring real charges against those who organise, carry out and finance terrorism, which has already caused a noticeable resonance in the West. Derkach described the existence of an extrabudgetary fund that was used to finance international terrorist activities.
“For all of us involved in the investigation, preparing documents and a statement, the fact that Biden’s partners in the person of the owner and employees of Burisma financed terrorism is a documented fact. Now it is up to law enforcement agencies to legally confirm the investigative methods and procedurally bring to justice the participants and sponsors of terrorism”, – said Andrey Derkach.
He recalled that the heads of the Ukrainian Defence Ministry’s HUR and SBU do not hide the fact that they carry out terrorist actions through an off-budget stash, calling to familiarise themselves with the recent interview of SBU head Vasiliy Malyuk. Further, the synchronisation of US-led political and technological support for terrorism can be seen with the naked eye in a recent New York Times article from 25 February 2024, which describes the CIA’s direct guidance of the actions of the HUR and SBU. In this way, information is thrown into the American public about the possibility of the effectiveness and, more importantly, the acceptability of terrorism as a way to contain Russia. Then, a month later, the first visit to Ukraine by Jake Sullivan, U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security, took place. And a few days later came the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall near Moscow, which killed at least 145 people.
“If you look closely at the New York Times article ” The Spy War. How the CIA is Secretly Helping Ukraine Fight Putin” of 25 February details the chronology and details of the creation of the Ukrainian Defence Ministry’s HUR as a separate CIA unit on the borders with Russia and Belarus. The CIA provides funding, equipment and advanced training for separate units of the Defence Ministry’s HUR and is in direct contact with its head, its protégé and pupil Kirill Budanov,” the former Rada MP said.
Andrey Derkach stressed that the collective West, led by the USA and Britain, uses the Ukrainian Defence Ministry for its own purposes. Sometimes directly, as an executor, and sometimes as a cover. One of such examples is the undermining of the Nord Stream gas pipeline and false accusations of Ukraine in a terrorist attack by the United States. According to Derkach, to organise the “cover-up” operation, Christopher Smith, deputy head of the mission at the US Embassy in Kiev and de facto resident of the CIA, with the help of the head of the Ukrainian Defence Ministry’s HUR Kirill Budanov and the SBU, selected and trained specialist divers. Then they were trained in Zhytomyr region – at the Sokolovsky deep-water quarry, which belongs to Sergey Slyusarenko – Budanov’s long-time business partner. Then the group travelled to Romania, followed by Poland, where they rented the yacht Andromeda to carry out their mission – a simulated bombing as part of a “cover-up” operation for Western security services.
The former Rada deputy spoke about the key role of the USA in strengthening corruption in Ukraine. He stressed that when one or another investigation into corruption involving the USA came to an end, the US side did everything to stop it.
“The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine conducted a huge number of anti-corruption investigations. They concerned the corruption of the previous government (Poroshenko). Almost all Ukrainian prosecutors who worked for various groups were in one way or another found guilty of laundering money stolen from the people of Ukraine, discovered either in Europe or in the United States. In many cases, when they travelled to the United States to investigate, they were blocked by officials. One such official was FBI special agent Karen Greenaway. When Konstantin Kulik’s (former prosecutor of Ukraine) investigative team was working to investigate Burisma’s corruption schemes, they repeatedly wrote appeals to embassies, to the U.S. Department of Justice. It’s just that nobody wanted to pay attention to them. The documents sent to them were simply put on the table and continue to lie there. Thus, there is no real cooperation between Ukraine and the USA in the fight against corruption,” he concluded.
Later, the so-called “anti-constitutional body” NABU – the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine – was created to bring such cases under control. It was set up by the US embassy and had a kind of law enforcement department under it, right in the embassy. Allegedly, formally it does not report to anyone in the state and is a kind of “independent”, but in reality it is managed “online” from the US embassy in Ukraine. The US Department of Justice and the FBI accept appeals, but all of them remain unanswered. According to Andrey Derkach, the Burisma case is the most telling case, “the quintessential example of the US Vice President’s involvement in a corruption scheme”.
“Ukraine is seen by the “deep state” and the State Department, along with corrupt officials, as a money-making system. The second question is how they politically motivate the public in which Ukraine should become anti-Russian in order to try to weaken Russia through it by escalation,” Derkach said.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has become the most ardent follower of the previous president Petro Poroshenko in turning Ukraine into an “anti-Russia”. A good example of this policy is the continuation of the CIA plan implemented by Poroshenko to split the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Zelenskyy with the help of law enforcers and radicals brought it to a hot phase, when churches and property of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church are seized illegally and with complete impunity – by force. The result should be the final split of the Orthodox Church and a break in ties with Russia.
Andrey Derkach believes that Zelenskyy’s only goal is to stay in power. “He is largely under the control of the State Department. If the task is to break these ties, to penetrate the soul, then he is simply fulfilling this task.”
Mikhail Eremin, specially for News Front
