Posted on 10/31/2025 4:30:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Opposition lawmakers and civil society activists say Ukraine’s leadership is using lawfare to intimidate opponents and silence critics.
As Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly four years ago, Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, then head of Ukraine’s state-owned national power company Ukrenergo, was scrambling to keep the lights on.
Somehow, he succeeded and continued to do so every year, earning the respect of energy executives worldwide by ensuring the country was able to withstand Russian missile and drone strikes on its power grid and avoid catastrophic blackouts — until he was abruptly forced to resign in 2024, that is.
Kudrytskyi’s dismissal was decried by many in the energy industry and also prompted alarm in Brussels. At the time, Kudrytskyi told POLITICO he was the victim of the relentless centralization of authority that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his powerful head of office Andriy Yermak often pursue. He said he feared “corrupt individuals” would end up taking over the state-owned company.
According to his supporters, it is that kind of talk — and his refusal to remain silent — that explains why Kudrytskyi ended up in a glass-enclosed cubicle in a downtown Kyiv courtroom last week, where he was arraigned on embezzlement charges. Now, opposition lawmakers and civil society activists are up in arms, labeling this yet another example of Ukraine’s leadership using lawfare to intimidate opponents and silence critics by accusing them of corruption or of collaboration with Russia. Zelenskyy’s office declined to comment.
Others who have received the same treatment include Zelenskyy’s predecessor in office, Petro Poroshenko, who was sanctioned and arraigned on corruption charges this year — a move that could prevent him from standing in a future election. Sanctions have frequently been threatened or used against opponents, effectively freezing assets and blocking the sanctioned person from conducting...
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Everything, every single sector of Ukraine from its financial system to its leadership is corrupt. Anyone who has been there knows this.
Corruption has been their way of life.
Zelensky “Strutting His Stuff”, playing Piano with his male stick
and rubbing his nose from Cocaine irritation.
Yep. That’s Zelensky.
In heels, no less
He is a coke snorting corrupt & lying scumbag who cares nothing for the Uke people.
As if there somewhere is a bright side to it???
Vladimir Putin never made anybody laugh ...
To say there is a dark side of Z-man’s rule is to suggest there also must be a bright side. Well there isn’t.
I wish Zelensky would sober up a bit and write his memoirs about what he knows and forward it to Edward Snowden before we take him out, and his closest advisors. We just can’t afford to let the truth dangle out there.
Hmm...
I’m getting the impression that the usual suspects, aka: the anti-Zelensky/anti-Ukraine/pro-Putin/pro-Russia FR members, don’t like Zelensky.
Whowouldathunkit?
“Everything, every single sector of Ukraine from its financial system to its leadership is corrupt. Anyone who has been there knows this.
Corruption has been their way of life.”
Yes, the shrimp dictator has been well schooled by US demoncrats.
He takes his orders from them, snorts coke, campaigned for Kramala the Great and never plans to leave office just like Obummer the dog eared dictator.
I made a mistake.
His life is “wonderful” not beautiful.
Politics is legalized corruption.
Even the first democracy may it be in Greece or Rome when it was a Republic were “corrupt” and it was complained about back then.
The reason it wasn’t so bad in the US in our past is because government was small.
We had government restricted to certain roles. Limited government.
Our share of the GDP that was under government control was low.
Will you be attending next week's "The Hermeneutics Of Sodomy and the Twelve Tone System As Weapons Against the Capitalism" conference being hosted by your boy-boinking friend Michel (Foucault)?
Max (Horkheimer) says it will be the pseudo-intellectual soiree of the season, attended by the hoi polloi of the Zeeper set and some of the world's biggest blowhards, including you we hope!
SLOBBO URCRAYKNEE!!! FREE DON BASS!!!
He takes his orders from them, snorts coke, campaigned for Kramala the Great and never plans to leave office just like Obummer the dog eared dictator.
You guys are such idiots.
Do you think that insults and personal attacks on me are going to help Putin win the war and that Zelensky is going away because of your idiotic and childish attacks on him too?
Putin is losing the war and you guys are losing the argument, as proven by your desperate attempts to help Putin thru personal attacks on those who oppose Putin and Russis.
Grow a brain already, dumb ‘asshes’.
You are funny.
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