On November 10, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) exposed an alleged $110 million corruption scheme at state-owned nuclear company Energoatom. The charges are supported by a fifteen-month wiretap and over seventy searches carried out as part of a major investigation called Operation Midas.
According to NABU officials, the investigation uncovered a criminal enterprise run by Timur Mindich, a film producer and a former business partner of Zelenskyy. Additional suspects include former Minister of Energy and recently appointed Minister of Justice Herman Halushchenko; former Naftogaz CEO and Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Chernyshov; former Minister of Defense and current National Security and Defense Council member Rustem Umerov; and Ihor Myroniuk, former deputy head of the State Property Fund and former advisor to Halushchenko.
Mindich fled Ukraine the day before his premises were raided and is reportedly now in Israel.
how is it Zelenskyy’s corruption scandal, if he is not involved? how about not liying in headlines
It’s his government. When Putin’s government or inner circle gets caught being corrupt it is titled the same way and ss potions Putin’s corruption scandal
He is involved because he’s the head of state and the scandal in his government is blowing in his face too, note the wording “Zelenskyy faces the biggest corruption scandal of his presidency”. Faces.
russian propaganda on point, who fucking cares. just gives atmchair quarterbacks something to wrap tinfoil hats around
fuck this story.
Lmao Atlantic Council is now Russian propaganda? If that was the case Russia won already and you need to learn cyrillic.
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Get ready to learn Russian buddy.I do want to eventually learn Russian, but I’m already learning a second language and Spanish will be my third. Maybe Mandarin as my fourth. Russian as fifth? Doubt I’ll get that far, sadly.
4 high level implicated officials fled Ukraine. Thinking is the US exposed the corruption as pre-peace proposal.
Eh. Just 110 million and Zelenskyy seems only tangentially involved. Wake me up when we find out he is friends with Epstein.
Good on the independent National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) for actually doing its job during wartime.
“reportedly now in Israel.”
Ukraine, like many of the former Soviet states, has always had corruption problems. At least they’re trying to work through them right now.
How exactly are they trying to work through them? With more corruption?
There has been a grassroots movement to stop corruption and it has made progress. The war has hampered this effort.
Is this grassroots movement in the room with us right now?
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Always? Or just since roughly 1991?
Well during the USSR too obviously
I mean they weren’t exactly a separate entity in the USSR. And before that, The Ottomans?
They were the Ukranian SSR tho, they had statehood
Loll
It’s true, though. The various SSRs and SFSRs had national autonomy while being part of an internationalist socialist economy.
I understand that this does not comport with the comic book version of history you wish to live in, but them’s the facts
It’s crazy how predictable the .ml crowd is.
It’s like they’re all the same person because they censor anyone who challenges them.
Censorship is when you get made fun of for saying stupid things on the internet
It’s crazy how predictable the lib crowd is.
It’s like they’re all the same person because they all parrot NATO propaganda and try to silence anyone who challenges them, even in the small insignificant online spaces they have.
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Damn, now even the Atlantic Council is Russian propaganda? Will those perfidious rooskies stop at nothing?
I know, everything is now Russian propaganda.
Wikipedia posting the Ukraine source of this, means Wikipedia is now Russian-owned propaganda:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Anti-Corruption_Bureau_of_Ukraine#cite_note-50
And even GrapheneOS too. The project owner of GrapheneOS didn’t even specify which country because he was too afraid of the backlash, clearly he is now a Russian bot & GrapheneOS has become Russian for even telling us:
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/21819-impact-of-ongoing-war-on-grapheneos-development
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It was clearly sarcasm.
Thank god, you almost had to process an uncomfortable thought
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Least McCarthyist liberal
Your transformation into a balding, red-faced cold war boomer wearing a tucked in pocket shirt and screaming about Russian infiltrators is complete. Congratulations, Patriot.
Well that fucking sucks
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Good Lord, bluemaga liberals really are just qanoners now
Did he suck a horse dick and get blackmailed by Putin?
Do you really believe that Putin could have any fucking leverage with such photo/video? Fuck years ago was Putin having photo/video of Trump doing golden shower, now is a horse. Trump would just ignore that shit like he is doing with the Epstein scandal.
Russia could have video of pee games in a Moscow hotel. Unless Trump blew Bubba in Russia, there’d be no reason for FSB to have been at the party.
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You think he did that because of a photo/video of him sucking a horse??? Why not because is just more profitable for him? Do you really think MAGA people will start moving from Trump because of that? They are already trying to justify the entire Epstein shit. They can convince themselves that the horse thing is AI/fake news or whatever stupid excuse.
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So why Trump would do anything for Putin over a leak of him sucking a horse, if his base doesn’t care would not change the result of the election. How that would impact anything for Trump? Why not just buy him with money/crypto/assets/information?
This is literally the best argument. Trump will do anything for money and gold, why do things the hard way?
I think it’s a convenient time to character assassinate Zelensky if you’re trying to put pressure on him to push him into a bad deal that benefits Russia.
That has nothing to do with what they asked
Whataboutism
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A Russian agent
this shit reminds me of medieval serfs who would swear that the new, bad king is a puppet of the rival dynasty or the Pope or whatever. This Russian puppet thing was a masterstroke of propaganda, because it gave liberals, who were already American exceptionalists, the perfect excuse to substitute xenophobia for an actual critique of capitalism. Could Trump be a result of and manifestation of a rancid homegrown ideology that arose from the contradictions between the classes? No, he’s being controlled by the bad foreigners. Hell, I bet Hitler was a puppet of Rasputin, and the third reich was all just a Russian plot to weaken Germany .
Yes if we remove all evidence from the last ten years your theory seems plausible. Did Rasputin have a photo of Hitler blowing a horse? Did a troll farm out of Russia help get Hitler elected? Are you a bot? You can’t be serious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates_and_Russian_officials
Pure qanon rhetoric
Evidence
Something something Mueller Report
blowing a horse
Something something Pee Tapes
Wikipedia
Just lol
Are you a bot?
Everyone who does not believe my simple nationalist conspiracy answer to the incredibly broad questions of class antagonism and capitalist social decay is simply not a real person: a soothing fairy tale for nascent fascists-in-training.
Ukraine has always been corrupt AF
and people leave with mystery $$ and move to west Toronto.
Wow, propaganda on .ml? Whoever would have guessed. Go ahead and ban me now.
When shitlibs are calling the Atlantic Council Russian propaganda, it becomes extremely obvious that they think propaganda is just anything they don’t like.
Yeah, imagine posting an article from the Soviet propaganda outlet checks notes Atlantic Council. Smh what a bunch of tankies on .ml which you for some reason haven’t bothered blocking yet despite hating us enough to go out of your way to make ad hominem troll comments on.
When western, pro-NATO outlets are forced to admit and report on ongoing corruption scandals in Ukraine, you really have to wonder how much overwhelming evidence it will take to convince you that something may be afoot in the Banderite-controlled Ukrainian government.
Sometimes I wonder if there is no limit, and these people will be the 21st century equivalent of the Southern “lost cause” people or the German “stabbed in the back” types
People generally operate by licensing themselves to believe what they want to. Until their material conditions force them into accepting reality, they will continue to license themselves purely to believe that which upholds their present worldview.
We all do this, to be clear, but understanding that process helps us understand our limitations.
Atlantic Council
You know you’ve moved on to huffing the hard stuff when Atlantic Council, a literal American Department of War think tank, is too pro-Russian for your liking. But i mean, let’s be real. “Propaganda” to you people has always just meant “any evidence that runs counter to the reality I wish to cultivate”. Like when nazis running Ukraine was “just propaganda” until all the swastika and totenkopf pictures became too much to deny, at which point you just stopped talking about it.
no no no, you don’t get it. Putin has paid the US billionaire president (or blackmailed him, or charmed him, whatever), which means everyone aligned with the government is a Russian propagandist, unless they say exactly what I want to believe about the Aveng- I mean about Ukraine.
Yeah, I never expected to unironically post an AtlanticCouncil link myself. Feels very dirty.
Which propaganda? The American effort to make the corruption seem less so; the people who want to end a horrible war and will try anything to stop it; or the people who sympathize with Russia?
Driven by our mission of “shaping the global future together,” the Atlantic Council is a nonpartisan organization that galvanizes US leadership and engagement in the world, in partnership with allies and partners, to shape solutions to global challenges.
Ukraine has a corruption issue, it was what drove the Ukrainian revolution a decade ago. And while great strides were made to eliminate some of it, it’s still an huge and important issue that is separate from the war
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