Posted on 05/14/2024 1:11:03 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
Head of the Mezha Anti-Corruption Center, Martyna Bohuslavets, has written a report in Pravda asking "Where are the fortifications?" She reports that millions of dollars that were intended for the construction of fortifications in Ukraine were instead "transferred to Kharkiv OVA to front companies of avatars."
Bohuslavets said the Ukrainian Kharkiv Regional Military Administration (Kharkiv OVA) paid out funds to fictitious companies during the construction and fortification of the Kharkiv region. The report comes as Russian forces have broken into the northern region of Ukraine and the US continues funding the war.
According to Ukranian Pravda reports, the Russian military has begun to advance in the northern region of Ukraine where funding that was set for fortification was transferred to fake companies. The offensive from the Russian military launched on Monday with attacks on towns and villages, the Kyiv Post reports. A total of 7 billion hryvnias was spent there by Ukraine, according to the report.
This comes as the BBC reports that a regional Ukrainian commander in Kharkiv has said that the first line of defense was missing in a massive "betrayal" in the northern region of the country. Denys Yaroslavskyi, a commander in the region in charge of the Ukrainian Special Reconnaissance Unit, told the outlet, “There was no first line of defence. We saw it. The Russians just walked in. They just walked in, without any mined fields."
He told the BBC that government officials claimed to have built up the mines as the first line of defense at a huge cost. He told reporters, “Either it was an act of negligence, or corruption. It wasn’t a failure. It was a betrayal." He then added, “When we were fighting back for this territory in 2022, we lost thousands of people. We risked our lives."
"And now because someone didn’t build fortifications, we’re losing people again," he stated.
In March, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported on the lack of oversight on the funds going to Ukraine during the war. GAO found in its report from March that the Defense Department is lacking in its ability to provide oversight on the resources being sent to Ukraine in the war.
The GAO reported, "DOD does not have quality data to track delivery of defense articles to Ukraine. DOD guidance on PDA does not clearly define at what point in the delivery process defense articles should be recorded as delivered or provide clear instructions for how DOD service branches are to confirm delivery."
It added that full documentation of the funding being sent to the military effort has been lacking.
Wow
Please tell me that’s just a joke
He’s not actually singing Leftist Neil Young...
I suspect a lot of Russian artillery shells blasted openings.
The Russian advances seem to be substantial.
I bet Bidensky and the DNC knows where it went. Follow that money.
Billions never went to the war effort, but into the pockets of corrupt Ukrainians.
Biden: “Who cares?” Congress: “Who cares?”
We are trillions in debt, what difference does another few billions make?
Our nations collapse is imminent.........
The Marxists are so in control of our nation that even if Trump is put in office, he cannot save it........no one man can and 90% of all Republicans are out for themselves......
Been feeling that myself. There’s no way to turn this around and the end is going to be unimaginably nasty.
“More than likely it went in to American and Ukrainian politician’s pockets. Where else would it have gone?”
Yep. The big brag is that most of the money is being spent here at home. That’s a clue right there.
Exactly, I saw that. We know where that money came from...
Where else would it have gone?
U.S. MIC corporate. Where else in addition to.
Explains the frantic urgency of “passing the aid bill”.
I don't know.
Biden Campaign Announces Fundraising Numbers That Dwarf Trump’s
My contempt for the people occupying our government today is epitomized by this corrupt, arrogant, elitist, immature, grasping, ignorant turd.
You mean when he’s not running around on US funded private aircraft whoring around for more grift money he can skim off 10% from?
You think that little twerking faggot has the nads to be anywhere near an active warzone?
He probably has been. He bought a “Mega Mansion” In London a year or so back..... So either Poland or England.
Victor Davis Hanson:
It is. I think the left as we knew it … I mean, I should say, rather, the Democratic Party as we knew it kind of got all of their agendas satisfied in the sixties and seventies. By that I mean, they were very good ideas of social security, eight-hour work week, 40 hours a week, eight hours a day, overtime, disability. But they made the next leap in the eighties and nineties that they did not just want a level playing field, but they wanted a larger government. And this has an ancient pedigree, to come in and engineer how people thought and act in a collective sense. And it was going to be overseen by a self-appointed group of elite people. And they taught, they controlled all of the levers of influence.
Now they have that. The long march through our institutions is now complete. They control academia, K through 12, the corporate boardroom, Wall Street, traditional media, Silicon Valley, foundations, even professional sports. Even though they don’t control or have influence over the majority of Americans, it’s very hard to communicate or retrieve information off the internet or watch the Super Bowl without that imprint of the Left. And that message, that subtext that’s always there, that you’re born into an unfair system. You perpetuated an unfair system. The system has to be destroyed or changed to our dictates. And we don’t need a majority consensus to achieve those goals, because our moral aims are such that they justify almost any means to achieve them.
“The Russians simply walked in”
They have Cartels there, too?
Giving money to the Ukraine is foolish.
Maybe we would be better off giving all that money to the Russians, pay them to go away. Maybe we could save a bundle. We would at least know where the money went. :(
Victor Davis Hanson is a little reminiscent of Orwell here…they both saw so much and were so prescient, yet as we have come now to clearly see where this is heading, it remains that neither of them could grasp the fullness of the ugly tyranny and stark demonic rage that is now beginning to come down upon us.
There truly is no way back, as a people inhabiting this land (can’t even come to call us a nation any longer) we will be walking through the valley of the shadow of death.
I think VDH sees it. And is sending out the warning cry in as mild a manner as he can.
I agree totally.
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