Posted on 05/30/2025 5:05:36 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
In one corner is Vitali Klitschko, the towering mayor of Kyiv who, when he was a world champion heavyweight boxer, was renowned for his knockout power. In the other is President Zelensky, the diminutive president who has demonstrated remarkable staying power during three years of war with President Putin.
The two men are perhaps Ukraine’s most internationally recognised politicians. But they are now effectively at war after a simmering grudge between them became public. Zelensky has forced Klitschko, who is said to harbour presidential ambitions despite an aborted run in 2014, into a political clinch from which his escape looks improbable. The president has used martial law to appoint a rival military administration in the capital to mirror the mayor’s responsibilities.
Meanwhile, a string of arrests by the national anti-corruption bureau under an operation called Clean City has exposed widespread corruption under Klitschko’s watch. Seven of his subordinates have been arrested, with another three under investigation.
Klitschko, 53, has lashed out at Zelensky’s administration, complaining that the work of his city council had been paralysed by “raids, interrogations and threats of fabricated criminal cases” that prevented his deputies from meeting a legal quorum for decision making. “This is a purge of democratic principles and institutions under the guise of war,” he told The Times in Kyiv. “I said once that it smells of authoritarianism in our country. Now it stinks.”
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Corruption the theme, ALL of Ukraine is one, corrupted hole…..from the dog catcher to the Rada, a well known fact.
They have fleeced the American tax payers, with much help from our own war cheerleaders and Democrats. Enough is enough, time to pull up all stakes and leave….it will work itself out.
This sounds like the political turmoil in South Vietnam we learned about in high school history class.
Geesh, Zelensky really is like a US democrat. Corrupt and dirty as hell. SOB must be being coached.
Even if they did hold an election it would work out just like the one in Romania.
I noticed Linda Graham and DaNang Dick are over there collaborating with Zelensky against their enemies.
The American people.
What do you expect from the most corrupt country in Europe.
Vitali is a very accomplished individual, and not just for his HOF boxing career. The Ukrainian runt isn’t.
The Banderites will kill him.
Cant let him upset Dear Leader Zelensky.
Zelensky is NEVER going to be in the same room as this guy because he would get punched.
Corruption in Ukraine?
>Zelensky is NEVER going to be in the same room as this guy because he would get punched.
I think by summer youre going to see Z, Klitschko, Sirsky, or some other high up assassinated, and then it’s really on.
If we ever do have a peace treaty, Z won’t last long even if he leaves Ukraine. The AZOV types blame him for all the failures and will destroy him.
It stinks nice and good. Very stronk stench.
Oh, yeah , wow, the gloves are off.....The Times is just hearing about corruption in a country so corrupt, if it was saved from the Russians, it would still be a sewer? The Times is waaaay behind in its data base. Article not worth using as an information source.
“growing concerns that Zelensky’s consolidation of wartime powers has come at the expense of democracy. He accused Zelensky of using military administrations across the country to wrest power from elected mayors.”
Zelensky doesn’t want the war to end. He’d lose power.
His declaration of martial law means he has no competition.
He’s a little punk dictator.
Soon, someone will knock him off.
That’s why he’s everywhere except in Ukraine most of the time.
Of course! All any sane person needs to do is find out where Hunter Biden made millions of dollars without any marketable skills. It was UKRAINE!
Vitali brother Wladimir Klitschko was married to actress Hayden Panettiere. He moved back to Ukraine without her with their daughter. (she is crazy)
Someone alerts the Zeepers!
Without Zelensky, the American criminal party has no laundramat.
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