Ukraine's Zelensky CAUGHT buying $75 million luxury yacht with U.S. money
11/27/2023, 10:03:49 PM · by delta7 · 21 replies Redacted News ^ | 27 Nov 24 | Clayton Morris"
I think I remember Clayton Morris on Fox News, years ago.
MeganC: "The two yachts belong to Putin."
UMCRevMom@aol.com: "Thanks Meghan.. your comment beat me to it! LOL"
Minor detail -- it's two yachts for $75 million total being alleged as recently purchased by close friends of Ukraine Pres. Zelenskyy.
That report on Ukrainian yachts looks to me like just more fake news, typical Russian propaganda, likely in response to the actual recent discovery of two more actual Putin Yachts.
Here Prof. Gerdes goes through this story, noting that all of it is from a single very shady source, verified by nobody at the time and unverifiable today.
Gerdes himself accepts the claim of two yachts being purchased as legitimate, though nothing about the alleged documentation looked convincing to me.
Gerdes accepts that the alleged buyers were friends of Ukraine Pres. Zelenskyy, for which I've seen no serious evidence.
But Gerdes draws his "red line" at the point of claiming Zelenskyy himself had anything to do with these purchases, since there is no evidence for that either.
Gerdes does note that Zelenskyy made a lot money as an actor producer before becoming President, so may well afford such purchases out of his own earnings.
But I saw nothing in Prof. Gerdes video which convinced me that any of this is real.
The far more likely explanation is pure Russian propaganda intended as a "what about this" response to the discovery of two much more expensive Putin yachts.
Putin's yacht collection is now up to one dozen, valued at over $1 billion, including this Putin extravaganza: