Posted on 10/31/2023 3:10:13 PM PDT by delta7
A top advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has reportedly admitted that corruption is so rampant in the wartorn former Soviet state that officials are “stealing like there’s no tomorrow”.
Speaking anonymously to Time magazine, what is alleged to be a top presidential advisor to Zelensky said that the Ukrainian government’s efforts to stamp out corruption have proved fruitless, given that they were implemented too late to have any impact, including the firing of Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov.
“People are stealing like there’s no tomorrow,” the top advisor is said to have told the publication, saying that officials do not “feel any fear” of engaging in corruption because the firing of Reznikov and others took over six months after Zelenksy was warned that the Defence Ministry was drowning in graft.
Another advisor is reported to have told the magazine that by the time Zelesnky acted “it was too late” and that the corruption scandal had not only become known in Western capitals but also among soldiers on the frontline, where troops reportedly began making lewd jokes about “Reznikov’s eggs” — a reference to the accusation that the Defence Ministry had vastly overpaid for basic items such as eggs and coats for soldiers.….
10% for the Big Guy!
Cant say I blame them
Outrageous! How much are other countries giving?? Trump gets impeached for sneezing the wrong way, RINOpublicans can barely say impeach.
10% for the Big Guy!
“””””Ukraine 1991-2023 RIP ( maybe 2024”””””
I see you are moving from the original “Ukraine, RIP 1991-2022” to “2023”, and now “2024”.
Time does pass as we start to see 2 years approaching.
mebbe somebody oughta look into The Big Guys garage....behind the ‘vette..
Since the start of the invasion, Ukraine has refused to release official counts of dead and wounded. But according to U.S. and European estimates, the toll has long surpassed 100,000 on each side of the war. It has eroded the ranks of Ukraine’s armed forces so badly that draft offices have been forced to call up ever older personnel, raising the average age of a soldier in Ukraine to around 43 years.
Now recruitment is way down. As conscription efforts have intensified around the country, stories are spreading on social media of draft officers pulling men off trains and buses and sending them to the front. Those with means sometimes bribe their way out of service, often by paying for a medical exemption. Such episodes of corruption within the recruitment system became so widespread by the end of the summer that on Aug. 11 Zelensky fired the heads of the draft offices in every region of the country.
TIME
10/30/23
Simon Shuster
Surprise, surprise, surprise...
Payback is hell for Biden.
Biden gets a few million from Ukraine to fills his pockets.
And now Biden has to give billions to Ukraine to keep them quiet.
Perhaps this tidbit needs to be sent to our new SOH before he brings up any more Ukraine funding.
The DC crowd isn’t always up on the news. They live in a bubble.
The same people that were all for the money laundering of taxpayer money in the ukraine will be the taxpayers complaining about their tax increases over the next few years to pay for it all.
PING
“And I put $20 billion in an offshore account for you, Joe, just like Hunter told me to.”
How else they gone git they stuff?
LOL - Have the Zeepers made a thread of this yet so they can wet themselves together?
"Plastics!"
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