Posted on 07/02/2024 10:16:28 AM PDT by ransomnote
Excerpt:
Zelenskiy's wife, Olena Zelenska, bought the three-room penthouse apartment on Ukraine's Crimea peninsula for $163,893 in April 2013, according to the declaration of income and assets filed this year by her husband, and the Ukrainian property register.For the purchase, made the year before Russia annexed Crimea, she paid the equivalent of about $1,263 per square metre.A 2012 listing published on Ukrainian real estate site domik.ua put the price for an apartment in the Emperor complex in a range of between $3,500 and $4,000 per square metre.A second listing for the same building, published in 2012 on the indoor-estate.ru site, gave the minimum price as $2,800 per square metre.A Crimea real estate agent, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed that apartments comparable to those in the Emperor complex usually sold in 2013 for between $2,500 and $3,000 per square metre but could go for up to $5,000.Buryak is a former member of the Ukrainian parliament who, with his brother Sergei, was controlling shareholder in Ukrainian lender Brokbiznesbank from at least 2010 until they sold the majority stake in mid-2013, according to data from Ukraine's securities and exchange commission and a disclosure statement from the bank.
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When I search the web, about 50% of the reportage for Mrs. Zelensky's purchase of a car is deemed fake news(e.g, Newsweek says its fake) and the other 50% are still reporting it as an active story.Since Zelensky is NATO's puppet, I believe the stories are likely true but easily 'debunked' by string pulling. Why? Because of the reputation of Zelensky and his wife. I do recall the stupid magazine cover in which they posed like mr and mrs james bond behind an open briefcase of money, and the Missus has been known to shop shop shop.
In the Dictator business that’s called the Biden Discount…. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
But they're getting better
Guess that apartment is a write-off now. Why does this poster bring it up?
LOL. 2013.
I wonder if she ever got to visit?
And I wonder who is living there now?
When is poster going to ‘post’ on Indicted War Criminal Little PUkin’s billion dollar palace?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin%27s_Palace
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Exclusive: Wife of Ukraine president-elect got penthouse bargain from tycoon (Flashback - 2019), SpeedyInTexas wrote: When is poster going to ‘post’ on Indicted War Criminal Little PUkin’s billion dollar palace?
If the US every gives Putin almost 200 Billion tax-payer dollars in 'foreign aid' to fight NATO's proxy war, then I will care what Putin does with the money.
The US just pledged another 2 billion American Tax Dollars to the little grifter in the Ukraine.
According to Wiki, Zelenskyy helped create his own political party in 2018.
At the time, he was the star of a very popular TV political sit-com.
My point - who would have benefited by selling the condo at a huge discount in 2013?
Not obvious - unless the issue here is about tax evasion by Zelenskyy, who was a moderately successful TV producer and comedian in 2013.
2 billion to kill the RuZZian invaders.
I love it!
Oh, come, now! ZEEPERS screaming, “It’s a lie!”, in 3, 2, 1...
THIS! And yes, I’m SHOUTING!
Ukraine ping
rn: [If the US every gives Putin almost 200 Billion tax-payer dollars in ‘foreign aid’ to fight NATO’s proxy war, then I will care what Putin does with the money.
The US just pledged another 2 billion American Tax Dollars to the little grifter in the Ukraine.]
In WW2, the US funded a Russia committed to the overthrow of all governments not already subservient to Russia, through the auspices of Comintern. This Russia colluded with Germany to start WW2. It fought Germany only after German armies invaded Russia.
Note that Russia was fighting on its own soil for 3 out of the war’s 4 years despite annual US aid to Russia amounting to ~6% of the US’s 1941 GDP. At the beginning of the war, Russia lost to the Germans territory amounting to ~2x the area of all of Ukraine. If Ukraine had lost to Russia what Russia lost to the Germans, it would already have been overrun. What’s impressive is how little US aid was required for Ukraine to hold the Russians back - 0.2% of US GDP, or 1/30 of WW2 American aid to Russia.
While the claim is dubious, if Zelensky is in fact getting a Bugatti, we should buy him a new model every year. He’s been working wonders on a shoestring budget. That Ukraine is warding off Russia with the same annual budget used to fight a bunch of part-time guerrillas in Afghanistan is near miraculous.
A world that expected a Russian victory in 3 days has instead been given yet another demonstration of Ukrainian courage and resourcefulness. These characteristics were always latent, but this is the first time disinterested foreign assistance has been made available in more than nominal quantities. While 1/30 WW2 US aid to Russia, Ukrainians are certainly doing much better with the limited help provided than anyone thought possible.
If you research the Cossacks you may find they lacked what the west would call upstanding noble law abiding people.
Ukraine ping
[2 billion to kill the RuZZian invaders.
I love it!]
If Texas were invaded by tens of thousands of, say, a Mexican tyrant's "little green men", who intimidated residents to "vote" in a laughably rigged "referendum", deported Anglophone adults and children to Mexico, denied Anglophones jobs and medical care, and forced Anglophones to get Mexican passports, darned right I would support bombing the invaders into dust.
Not that this could actually happen, since Texans, (including most Hispanic Texans) take full advantage of our 2nd Amendment.
LOL! When poster is sycophant to GRU, "nevah hoppen, mon!"
We’re funding Ukraine to prevent Russia, a two-continent empire with a long history of annexing its neighbors until stopped by unacceptable losses, from expanding its territory. We wouldn’t stand by if our allies attempted to annex new lands. We’re certainly not indifferent to Russia’s fresh efforts at empire-building.
ransomnote: When those agitating for the Ukraine are not insisting Putin is stupid, dying and about to be overthrown by his people, we hear that he has aspirations of world dominion and limitless power. That 'history of annexing new lands' applies to Soviet history - agitators continue to portray Russia as Soviet. Putin responded to the CIA overthrow of Ukraine in 2013/2014 by annexing a buffer zone. This is defensive on his part.
In WW2, the US funded a Russia committed to the overthrow of all governments not already subservient to Russia, through the auspices of Comintern. This Russia colluded with Germany to start WW2. It fought Germany only after German armies invaded Russia.
ransomnote: You refer to 'Russia' during WWII but the it was Soviet Union during the years 1922 to 1991. Much of Ukrainian agitation relies upon calling the Soviet Union 'Russia' in order to harvest American rejection of Communism and Soviet apsirations and falsely apply it to Putin.
Note that Russia was fighting on its own soil for 3 out of the war’s 4 years despite annual US aid to Russia amounting to ~6% of the US’s 1941 GDP. At the beginning of the war, Russia lost to the Germans territory amounting to ~2x the area of all of Ukraine. If Ukraine had lost to Russia what Russia lost to the Germans, it would already have been overrun. What’s impressive is how little US aid was required for Ukraine to hold the Russians back - 0.2% of US GDP, or 1/30 of WW2 American aid to Russia.
ransomnote: WWII just doesn't apply here. Here's a description on the demise of the Soviet Union: "One of the most powerful empires in world history came to a surprisingly peaceful end when the Soviet Union dissolved into 15 independent states." Without referencing 'Soviet Union' history - your whole argument about the Ukraine 'holding back RUssia' comes down to the CIA's overthrow of the Ukraine in 2014 - President Trump has spoken of this. If the CIA/NATO were not using Ukraine as its proxy in a war to remove Putin - there would be no war, no annexation.
While the claim is dubious, if Zelensky is in fact getting a Bugatti, we should buy him ensky is a puppet benifiting from vast funding while his people are suffering. 'Working wonders on a shoestring budget' is a joke - the Ukraine is losing badly and the people are the ones to fight, die, or bury their loved ones and sit in the dark without resources.
A world that expected a Russian victory in 3 days has instead been given yet another demonstration of Ukrainian courage and resourcefulness. These characteristics were always latent, but this is the first time disinterested foreign assistance has been made available in more than nominal quantities. While 1/30 WW2 US aid to Russia, Ukrainians are certainly doing much better with the limited help provided than anyone thought possible.
ransomnote: Some people underestimated how far NATO was going to go in orchestrating this war. Top command levels are NATO, with levels of military which bleed being Ukrainian. 'The world' did not anticiapte that.
You can't convince anyone that forcibly conscripting boys 15 to disabled men of 70 years of age is cause for pride!
You said: "but this is the first time disinterested foreign assistance has been made available in more than nominal quantities"!!!!!
The Ukraine has been a glove pulled over NATO's fist to punch and claw at Russia. The lives of the citizens of Ukraine are being thrown into the wood chipper to fuel NATO's war! There is NOTHING 'disinterested' about NATO/BIDEN funding the war to protect their Deep State crime hub there!
Again the US did not give aid to 'Russia' during WWII, if what you say is true, but instead the US would have had to give it to the Soviet Union.
The Ukraine is bleeding to death, with the 'help' of Amercan tax dollars.
When I first heard about the war in the Ukraine, I read up on Zelensky and found that he had an oligarch backing him before he took office. I get the impression he was 'groomed' by this guy. It would be harder to find such articles now as the Internet is being scrubbed re Ukraine. Back then, the man was described as a Russian oligarch, but when I look today, I find a Ukrainian Oligarch. It could be he had both, or that they were pawns of the CIA.
At the time I read that article, I wondered if it was a sexual relationship. In the following article (paywall) there's a picture that looks like gay boy bands in the US, and his leather dancing you see in gifs on FR is not designed to appeal to women. So the article with the picture of the 'boys' (Zelensky and friends) details the time Zelensky spent living in Moscow as an entertainer.
Volodymyr Zelensky's Russian years
What seems to have happened re Kolomoisky is he backed Zelensky, things got worse for Ukraine and the oligarchs assets in Ukraine were nationalized, and now Z has fully turned on him. Or the CIA has turned against Kolomoisky and Zelensky goes along with it.
Ukrainian oligarch and former Zelensky backer Kolomoisky charged with attempted murder
But there may be another oligarch, a Russian, involved. As I said, the Internet is being 'cleansed' in some ways - content I used to find that I can no longer find.
Are you familiar with the Pandora Papers? Zelensky was one of 330 high profile people exposed for having off-shore assets. This was a problem for him because his campaign platform portrayed him as rising to defeat those with such assets. The following article provides an overview of Z's undeclared assets.This article is more than 2 years oldRevealed: ‘anti-oligarch’ Ukrainian president’s offshore connections
Luke Harding, Elena Loginova and Aubrey BelfordSun 3 Oct 2021 12.30 EDTVolodymyr Zelenskiy has railed against politicians hiding wealth offshore but failed to disclose links to BVI firm
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