Posted on 08/20/2023 5:03:28 PM PDT by delta7
A new study, conducted by two Ukrainian institutions, has revealed that over 75% Ukrainian citizens, believe President Volodymyr Zelensky is directly responsible for the pervasive corruption in the government and military administrations.
The joint sociological study, carried out by the Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Kyiv International Sociological Institute (KIIS), with the assistance of the Prague Civil Society Center, indicated that 77.6% of Ukrainians surveyed blamed the country’s corruption on the Ukrainian leader. Zelensky has consolidated his power over the war’s duration, the portal NEWS UA reports.
The study’s results come as a separate Ukrainian public opinion survey, provided exclusively to The European Conservative, revealed that an overwhelming majority of Ukrainians deeply mistrust the EU and NATO, with 71% of respondents saying that NATO and the EU only follow self-serving interests and simply use Ukraine for their own purposes.
Commenting on the study’s results, sociologist Petro Burkovsky, who serves as the director of the Democratic Initiatives Foundation, said:
The delay in solving the problems, which undermines people’s faith in victory, also affects the president’s reputation. The survey showed that 77.6% of citizens believe that the president is directly responsible for corruption in the government and military administration.
Furthermore, the sociologist noted that “the widespread argument that the government does not have time for everything” simply no longer works. After 16 months of war, there is no longer a valid excuse for those who fail to take action to eliminate abuses and do nothing to combat negligence and incompetence. Citizens increasingly believe that the state, with Zelensky at the helm, “have had time to do everything, to do everything to combat [corruption], using the powers that were extended during the state of war.”
Continuing, Burkovsky said:
In other words, officials who fail in their duties are no less dangerous of enemies at this time than Russia. And the citizens expect Volodymyr Zelensky to be determined to remove such persons from the leadership, to listen to, and appoint executives who will honestly point out the problems and competently propose solutions. … Therefore, the purging of territorial recruitment centers of ‘invaluable personnel’ should be the start of a countdown, not a point in the process of reforming the defense sector. In this case, the path of easy solutions should not be followed. It is assumed that the majority of citizens could support a ‘simple idea’ of directing offending military commanders to the front line. However, can we trust the weapons and the lives of soldiers to men who have cynically traded in their exemption cards? Such a decision is unlikely to be supported in combat units. But the replacement of corrupt officials with veterans will find a response in society.
The survey also found that nearly three out of four Ukrainians (72.9%) support the discharge of wounded soldiers from the armed forces, with adequate compensation to cover treatment and rehabilitation.
Some 2,011 people across 135 Ukrainian settlements participated in the survey.
News of the study’s findings came just days before President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that all regional military recruitment heads would be removed from their posts following a scandal that revealed the recruiters had taken substantial amounts of cash bribes to allow men to avoid military service, as The European Conservative reported.
“We are dismissing all……..
Saint Vlod? Say it isn’t so!
The Gay Actor will soon be loading his plane with pallets of American Cash
in prep for his exit out of Ukraine before his citizens string him up.
I wonder what high-rise building in Kiev he’ll be jumping from? The Mariinskyi Palace may not be high enough.
It's so sad.
They and their lives and country are being destroyed by that corrupt, self-serving actor and his nutcase crew of conmen -- and our equally corrupt government.
All the Ukes that can get out are leaving or have left. The population has been declining since 1990 but has seen a whopping 25% drop since 2020!
Think about that. It's like the combined states of CA and WA losing one-quarter of their population!
Tell me again, why are we sending $200 billion of our tax dollars to that "sh#$t hole?"
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The Clown 🤡 show is coming to an end with predictable Joe Biden results.
His own people will do him in. No ones like failure. The failed attack on Russian annexed Ukraine (Now called Greater Russia) will not go down with the people. Mr. Z should pack his bags and all the US Dollars he can get his hands on and get out while the getting is good.
“Majority of Ukrainians Blame Zelensky for Government Corruption”
True, today. But all Zelensky really did was inherit a government that has ALWAYS been among the most corrupt in the Western world. For example, the Bidens, and many others, were getting RICH off Ukraine long before Zelensky took power.
Because Ukraine was always a part of Russia so its due to the legacy from the Soviet Era. But they're getting better, from what I understand.
They're trying to escape the Russian orbit but Putin is getting in their way.
Ya THINK?!?
Tell me again, why are we sending $200 billion of our tax dollars to that “sh#$t hole?”
Heh, a rhetorical question and will respond with a rhetorical answer: To send countless millions back to Xiden, the uniparty/GOPe and other nefarious gummit types. And of course keep those military suppliers rich and fat. And that’s just the beginning.
The Gay Actor will soon be loading his plane with pallets of American Cash
in prep for his exit out of Ukraine before his citizens string him up.
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Italy’s Mussolini comes to mind- strung up with his mistress while attempting to flee the country. It took awhile, but the people finally figured out what he had done to them…..history repeats.
Nah, it can’t be. They must have polled only among Putinista Traitors at Free Republic; Volodymyr Zelensky is the greatest hero of the world and an angel sent by God to free the world from the Soviet Oppressor!
Or so I am told every evening, anyway.
Of course, just as people here recognize that Biden is corrupt and we see the scheming old perv destroy law and order like most DNC leaders... champion the people while stealing from them and flaunting breaking the law.
How many Ukrainians are dead so corrupt Joe Biden and company can launder their ill gotten gains? America has no business in Ukraine but political corruption. Ukraine is the center of Western corruption. We all know that corrupt Joe doesn’t give a rats ass about the Ukrainian people. He doesn’t even care about Americans.
You sure got that right!
Never forget that we (us taxpayers and so-called citizens) are as much a target of Brandon and his den of corrupt thieves as the Ukes.
It doesn't matter to that crew. They'll take it wherever they can get it -- us or the Ukes, or anybody else that's fool enough to fall for those crooks.
What a disaster we have on our hands!
Lies, damned lies, and phony polls.
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