Zelensky ought to wear a suit the next time he's asking for givas
>>2559265You know it is over when he shaves
Thx for baking bread, op
>Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has appealed to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, asking to be added to the list of civilian prisoners of war in the Russia’s war against Ukraine.
>In a statement posted on Facebook on November 13, Saakashvili said he had recently been discharged from hospital, where he was treated following what he described as a severe poisoning, and returned to Penitentiary Colony No. 12.
>Saakashvili said he was imprisoned on “completely fabricated charges,” adding that a new criminal case now accuses him of “sabotage in favor of a foreign hostile state.”
>“I am a citizen of Ukraine and the head of the Executive Committee of the National Reform Council, where I had the honor of working under your leadership. I want to ask you, just as you did in 2019 when you restored my unlawfully revoked citizenship, to include me—as the former head of the Odesa Regional Administration and as the head of the Executive Committee of the National Reform Council, who is being unlawfully held by Georgia’s pro-Russian regime—in the list of civilian prisoners of this war, with all the corresponding legal consequences,” he wrote.
*inhales* oh no no no
you know, at least Assad is comfy gaming in Moscow right now, but this is what happens to uyghas who trust the west lmao
>>2559261the
true two more weeks.
>>2559261omg, im coolminati g
How Far Will Ukraine’s Corruption Scandal Go?https://korybko.substack.com/p/how-far-will-ukraines-corruption
<The most that might happen is a cabinet reshuffle since the SBU has no reason to support regime change against the man who unprecedentedly empowered them, nor does Trump since Zelensky does what he demands, but this scandal still discredits him and his government more than they already are.
>A major scandal is rocking Ukraine after its National Anti-Corruption Bureau, which Zelensky unsuccessfully tried to subordinate over the summer, charged several important figures in connection with its investigation into a $100 million energy graft scandal. This includes Timur Mindich, Zelensky’s longtime business partner, who fled abroad as the authorities were closing after being tipp`ed off about his imminent arrest. He’s alleged to have also influenced the former Energy and Defense Ministers.
>Speculation is now swirling that Zelensky himself either profited from this corruption or at the very least was aware of it but did nothing since it involved his close friend. This has in turn led to some wondering whether the US might demand that Zelensky step down or if it’ll work towards replacing him through other means. Tacit support for parliamentary efforts to remove him or various coup scenarios, such as a military one or a Color Revolution, are some of the possibilities being discussed on social media.
>On the topic of parliament, former President Pyotr Poroshenko’s European Solidarity party already called for a new cabinet in an attempt to preempt the potential curtailment of European aid on this pretext. He’s also one of Zelensky’s fiercest rivals and could hypothetically replace him since he has experience running the country. That being said, regime change in Ukraine is extremely unlikely without the SBU’s backing, which has ruthlessly suppressed most expressions of political dissent over the past 3.5 years.
>They have practically unlimited power under Zelensky too so there’s no reason for them to oust him. The US has also shown no interest in replacing him either, which would require some coordination with the SBU even if only demanding that they not interfere with the operation, despite a stream of reports from Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service over the years alleging that they’re actively preparing to do so. The only way that this will happen is if Trump approves, but he’s on excellent terms with Zelensky nowadays.
>A large-scale Russian breakthrough along the front might make him reconsider if Zelensky defies whatever Trump demands of him in that event, such as immediate concessions of some sort aimed at stopping the advance and averting Ukraine’s full-blown collapse, but that hasn’t yet happened. It can’t be ruled out after Russia encircled Ukraine troops in three key areas, however, but Zelensky might have the political acumen to do whatever is then demanded of him in order to avoid enraging Trump.
>After all, he’s certainly aware that this high-profile corruption scandal could be leveraged by the US for regime change purposes if it wants to, so he’s expected to be on his “best behavior” for the time being. This doesn’t mean that he’ll stop trying to manipulate Trump, such as what his government and their British co-patrons sought to do through the latest false flag provocation that Russia’s Federal Security Service just foiled, just that defying him isn’t likely since it could end with Zelensky’s removal.
>With this insight in mind, Ukraine’s corruption will probably only go as far as a cabinet reshuffle since the SBU has no reason to support regime change against Zelensky (including by passively letting others carry it out instead of thwarting their attempt), nor does Trump (at least for now). It still discredits him and his government even more than they already are, and the Europeans might curtail some funding on this pretext, but expectations that something significant might follow appear to just be wishful thinking. >>2559284You ever notice these "ebil Russian/Soviet poisonings" are always half assed? If the Russians wanted to kill Yushchenko, Saakashvili, Navalny or any other of these western uncle toms, they would've.
>>2559387The scandal that could bring down Volodymyr Zelenskyhttps://archive.is/20251112133342/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-scandal-that-could-bring-down-volodymyr-zelensky/#selection-1197.0-1197.52
>A solid gold toilet and cupboards loaded with bagfuls of €200 bills are among the treasures linked to the prominent Ukrainian businessman Timur Mindich, after an investigation by Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (Nabu). Mindich is big in real estate, fertilisers, banking and diamond trading – but he is best known as a long-time co-owner of Volodymyr Zelensky’s Kvartal 95 television production company. Nabu’s 15-month long investigation into what it describes as ‘high level’ corruption at the top of Ukraine’s political elite is likely to have momentous consequences for Zelensky’s political future.
>According to a YouTube video put out by Nabu, their investigation has focused on alleged ‘kickbacks’ from contractors hired to build fortifications to defend energy infrastructure against Russian missiles and drones. The $100 million corruption scheme involved major public enterprises including Ukraine’s national nuclear power company Energoatom, alleges Nabu. As well as Mindich, former energy minister and justice minister Herman Halushchenko is among the suspects. Halushchenko has been suspended as justice minister, but says he will ‘defend myself in the legal domain and prove my position.’ Seventy searches have been carried out with serious charges to follow – though Mindich and several other leading suspects fled Ukraine just hours before the raids.
>Zelensky himself publicly supported the anticorruption crackdown, telling the nation in his nightly address that ‘there must be sentences’ and urging government officials to ‘work together with Nabu and law enforcement agencies.’ But Zelensky will inevitably face serious questions as his close political and business allies fall under suspicion. And it’s also very fishy that just four months ago Zelensky attempted to bring Nabu and its sister agency Sapo under direct government control, forcing through quickly-drafted legislation to scrap the agencies’ operational independence. Zelensky’s move shocked Ukraine’s international allies and prompted major street demonstrations in central Kyiv, the first public protests against the government since the beginning of the war. Under intense back-room pressure from Brussels and Washington, as well as from the Kyiv street, Zelensky eventually backed down. Nabu and Sapo’s interrupted investigations continued – culminating in this week’s politically damaging raids.
>A full-scale war seems to be about to break between independent anticorruption agencies and Zelensky’s inner circle, and the consequences are likely to be ugly. Ukraine’s National Security Service, known as the SBU, is loyal to Zelensky and wields considerable domestic power through its control of the judicial system and prisons. Nabu and Sapo, on the other hand, are heavily backed politically and financially by European and US governments and helped operationally by Western security agencies. That perceived nexus of notional independence and de facto Western control has prompted some Ukrainian politicians to denounce Nabu as a tool of foreign domination. Ukraine is turning into a ‘disenfranchised colony that is losing its sovereignty,’ complained former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko in August after she backed attempts to scrap Nabu’s independence.
>So far the full extent of Nabu’s investigation remains officially confidential. But a slew of recent reports, including in the New York Times, suggest that corruption runs deep and far and involves many figures linked to Zelensky and to Kvartal 95. Questions have been raised over how Fire Point, a casting agency for Zelensky’s films before the war, came to acquire multi-million dollar government contracts to produce drones for the Ukrainian army. Fire Point – which has not been charged with any wrongdoing – also produces a newly-developed Flamingo long-range cruise missile.
>During their searches, Nabu officers discovered over 1,000 hours of audio recordings that Mindich allegedly made of his conversations with business partners. A short teaser trailer put out on social media by Nabu featured a series of clips from different conversations between two men identified by code names who converse in Russian. The recordings don’t make much sense to outsiders – but their publication appears to a warning shot aimed at a very specific audience at the top of Ukraine’s political establishment.
>One sad takeaway of this murky story is that in many ways Ukraine continues to live by the same rules as prevailed in the wild 1990s under Leonid Kuchma or in Boris Yeltsin’s Russia. In the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union it became commonplace for wealthy businessmen to buy control over elements of the security forces and put them to work recording private conversations between leading politicians or business rivals and use the resulting ‘kompromat’ as a political tool. This time round the players are the Western-backed Nabu duking it out with the Zelensky-backed SBU – but the crossover of corruption and high-level politics feels depressingly like a trip back to the future.
>The go-to response for many Zelensky loyalists will be to write the allegations off as Kremlin smears. Indeed Zelensky’s justification for his attempt to bring Nabu under his control back in July were vague and never substantiated allegations of Russian penetration of Nabu. But with the West watching closely, Zelensky has little choice but to endorse Nabu’s takedown of his closest allies and business partners and deal with the consequences for his reputation and political career.
>The image of a golden toilet which was discovered in former president Viktor Yanukovych’s luxurious suburban mansion became an iconic emblem of the corruption that led to 2014’s momentous Maidan protests. It’s a supreme irony that the revolution against those golden toilet-owners led eventually to a full-scale war with Russia – the profits from which, it seems, have been used to buy yet more golden toilets. >>2559399https://x.com/I_Katchanovski/status/1988689802208878649?s=20
>As I said, NABU, which went against Zelensky's cronies, is US proxy in Ukraine: "NABU detectives met with a new FBI agent in connection with the Mindich case, sources say. Yesterday, detectives at the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine met with the new FBI officer, who coordinates cooperation in all NABU investigations. This time, the meeting specifically concerned the case of Timur Mindich , a defendant in Operation Midas, a joint operation between NABU and the SAP.
>As http://ZN.UA has learned , the latest scheduled rotation of the American representative (such changes occur every 4-6 months) recently took place, and a new officer from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation arrived in Kyiv. One of his first working meetings with detectives was specifically about the Mindich case.
>The FBI representative works permanently at NABU under an interagency memorandum signed when the Bureau was founded. He has his own office in the NABU building and communicates daily with detectives, keeping abreast of all investigations, especially high-profile corruption cases. The memorandum of cooperation is renewed every two years. There was a brief technical hiatus after the arrival of the Donald Trump administration, but following NABU Director Semyon Kryvonos's visit to the United States and his meeting with the First Deputy Director of the FBI, the document was renewed. Under this memorandum, ongoing operational cooperation between NABU and the FBI is ensured on cases involving high-profile corruption. This coordination is a technical procedure stipulated by interagency agreements.
>NABU and SAPO uncovered a large-scale corruption scheme involving high-level influence over strategic public sector enterprises, specifically Energoatom. Its organizers received 10-15% of the company's contract value in bribes, with kickbacks paid by contractors imposed on them by the scheme's participants. Overall, the defendants managed to launder $100 million , legalizing it through a separate office in central Kyiv owned by the family of former MP Andriy Derkach.
>The NABU recordings, in particular, feature the president's friends, Timur Mindich and Serhiy Shefir. Also mentioned are Cabinet ministers: Justice Minister Herman Galushchenko, Energy Minister Svitlana Grinchuk , and former Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Chernyshov . A SAP prosecutor reported that in the recordings, Mindich gave Galushchenko advice on how to best communicate with the president. According to the recordings, Zelenskyy called Galushchenko after receiving a text message from Mindich. Mindich himself left Ukraine for Israel several hours before the investigation began. Detectives believe he was the one overseeing the money laundering ." >>2559256>Money is very funny in a Banderite world edition. Is this a reference to some recent happenings?
>>2559497Zelensky's dual israeli citizenship friends just embezzled hundreds of millions in "fortifying energy infrastructure" I guess?
>>2559506oh, ok
I forgot about this
>>2559506They are all corrupt but this looks like sacrifices to deal with the public outrage at the power cuts. No fortifications would have prevented the Russians taking out thermal plants and sub-stations.
Several of them fled already and it wouldn’t surprise me if Zelensky tipped them off after throwing them off under the bus.
>>2559506he left to zionistland.
>>2559506>Zelensky's dual israeli citizenship friends just embezzled hundreds of millions in "fortifying energy infrastructure" and it's all come out in a very flashy display with large public interest
Seems ChampSoc and I are the only ones not lazy enough to bake new threads, but don't forget to update the "Previous" thread link.
Maybe more people will bake if they see it's not some big chore. I might add this to the thread template next time I do a bake:
BAKE GUIDELINES
1. Copy and paste the entire OP template. It's designed so that no manual formatting codes are required.
2. Increment the #number in the title.
3. Use whatever photos you want, and adjust the "edition" text accordingly.
4. Update the "Previous:" link.
5. Post a link to the newly baked thread in the old thread.