
by Johnathan Jones
People at the highest levels of Ukraine’s government are lining their pockets with cash as U.S. taxpayers prepare to fund yet another year of that nation’s war against Russia, an adviser to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
Time magazine published a lengthy story on Monday about reporter Simon Shuster’s recent visit to the war-torn country in which he shared insights he said he gained into the morale of those leading Ukraine nearly two years after Russia invaded it.
According to an unnamed senior adviser to Zelenskyy, people at the top are “stealing” like there is no tomorrow and Ukraine’s president faces pressure to root out corruption as its allies continue to give the country everything it asks for.
Shuster followed Zelenskyy back to Ukraine after he and his closest advisers visited the U.S. in September.
He commented that Ukraine’s president “can feel during his travels that global interest in the war has slackened. So has the level of international support.”
The reporter also spoke to an adviser who said that in spite of some internal housecleaning in the Zelenskyy Cabinet, theft is rampant.
“Amid all the pressure to root out corruption, I assumed, perhaps naively, that officials in Ukraine would think twice before taking a bribe or pocketing state funds,” Shuster wrote.
“But when I made this point to a top presidential adviser in early October, he asked me to turn off my audio recorder so he could speak more freely. ‘Simon, you’re mistaken,’ he says. ‘People are stealing like there’s no tomorrow.’”
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While Zelenskyy fired numerous Defense Ministry officials this year to change a perception that corruption was widespread, the adviser told Shuster that people behind the corruption did not “feel any fear” about facing consequences for misusing government funds as Ukraine relies on international aid.
Shutter added, “By the time [Zelenskyy] acted ahead of his U.S. visit, ‘it was too late,’ says another senior presidential adviser. Ukraine’s Western allies were already aware of the scandal by then.
“Soldiers at the front had begun making off-color jokes about ‘Reznikov’s eggs,’ a new metaphor for corruption. ‘The reputational damage was done,’ says the adviser.”
Read the full story @TIME. https://t.co/purXuqm07E In the coming weeks, look out for more dispatches going deeper into Ukraine’s military strategy, its wartime diplomacy, and the tensions inside Zelensky’s team.
— Simon Shuster (@shustry) October 30, 2023
Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov resigned in September in what Reuters referred to as a “wartime shakeup” of Zelenskyy’s Cabinet
Reports that people in the Ukrainian government are “stealing” come as President Joe Biden and U.S. lawmakers face pushback from taxpayers about their blank check policy toward funding a war with no end in sight.
10/31/23 – Family Of 9 Shot Dead In Their House In Russia-Occupied Ukrainian Town –
All the more reason to not give them one more red penny. Let them go at it on their own. Their border is of no consequence to America or Americans.
However, our southern border is another issue.
“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” ~John Stuart Mill, 1867~
Not
o
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OUR problem
We are NOT the worlds policemen.
FuQ that, clean our major American cities, again
N
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OUR business…
MAGAA
11b
Gird thy loins Greg go fight the ruskies if Ukraine needs money start selling cookies send the check to one of Zelenskys mansions, his wife needs a new trinket from 5th avenue. A nice blood diamond encrusted swastika or black sun maybe.
Russia has won this war. The House has laid down a marker, no more money to Ukraine.
Speaker Johnson has essentially told McConnell to suck on this, a bifurcated bill for Israel and a goose egg for uk.
ISRAEL is NOT our problem either.
ISRAEL is an English made problem… The REAL Israel has not returned to the promised land yet, proof, ‘this generation will not pass who see Israel return’…. {terrible paraphrasing}
Where is BiBi?
https://diannemarshallreport.com/crimes-against-humanity-burst-wide-open/
Israel just points out that a disarmed public depending on their government for protection are nothing but victims.
Someone tell me, when was Ukraine our ally, as joe claims?
Not all 88 years it was under the USSR as one of the loyal republics of the socialists.
Not after the USSR fell and we had to fight them in the UN and insist they get rid of their nuclear missiles that were POINTING AT US!
Not when NATO expanded closer to Ukraine, Russia didn’t want Ukraine to join it because it would leave no buffer between the NATO states and Russia, itself.
Not when we first started sending Zelensky money and he said they would NOT be our ally, just also not under Russia.
Only when Zelensky and his kleptocrat fellow leaders there saw what a cash cow joe was have they pretended to be our ally.
Their last words on the subject before that was that they promised only to be neutral.
Seems like WE (joe) started this “Ukraine is our ally,” garbage because joe is being blackmailed and Hunter was on the take in other ways there.
I am curious to see what Zelensky (and others there) say about joe and his crime family, if the Congress really dries up the blackmail cash.