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TeaHe is in Rashtrapati Bhavan Kyiv Making a splash. Volodymyr ZelenskyChief of Staff of India has resigned as his office and home were raided anti corruption police And detectives are looking into a €100 million fraud.
The racket that has already been claimed Political head of two ministers And sending a former business partner and close friend of Zelensky into exile and fleeing the war-torn nation is a strategic blow.
It proves, as it needed to, how widespread and deep and how reprehensible corruption is. The missing funds were allegedly extorted from contacts by Zelensky’s associates to recover and rescue ukraine energy sector Which has been under continuous Russian attacks for more than two years.
It comes when winter takes its icy grip on the country. This comes when people may be forced to go out ukraine Not from war, but from cold, and that’s how it happens Russia Marginal gains have been achieved on the eastern front.
Zelensky’s administration has been attacked by Russian trolls as illegitimate and corrupt. The President of Ukraine and his party also won the elections overwhelmingly, therefore the Ukrainian President is a complete liar.
The latter issue cannot be debated. The money for the war has been stolen by a group of powerful people. Their actions may have already resulted in Ukrainian deaths. They will be lucky to get away with the treason charge.
But he has been arrested. In Ukraine they have been or will be charged, prosecuted, sentenced and subject to the full force of public law and by a specially constituted body. RussiaA 2014 attack to go after the bad guys in the system.
In short, the imperfect system appears to have worked. The Ukrainian government is functioning as it should.
Which is a lot to say for Russia, where such an operation would only be possible if Putin ordered it. Zelensky has no legal authority over the anti-corruption police.
This is a very bad moment for Zelensky and Ukraine. The departure of Yermak, who has led most of the recent negotiations for a ceasefire or even a peace agreement, is a disaster for them.
Given that many of the characters in the sordid drama of Operation Midas, as the investigation is codenamed, are very close to Zelensky, this would jeopardize his position at home and his position abroad.
Yermak’s departure will warm the Kremlin’s coldest hearts. There is a strongly pro-Putin administration in Washington donald trump It is certain to join Moscow’s efforts to undermine the legitimacy of Ukraine’s president.
Trump, like Putin, has repeatedly demanded that Zelensky run for re-election, even though he is a wartime leader and no elections can legally be held until peace is achieved. Trump has demanded that he cede the territory to Russia – he can’t even do that legally.
Meanwhile, Putin says Zelensky’s government is “illegitimate”. This does not fit by any definition and is a lie but it is a lie that would suit the pro-Kremlin White House staff and their supreme leader.
But, as every Ukrainian will say, Zelensky is not Ukraine and Ukraine is not Zelensky. If he steps down another leader will emerge – technically the Speaker is next in line in Parliament.
Zelensky has been a great ambassador but there is no blind personality cult around him in Ukraine. Ukrainians have always been unhappy with the outside world’s fascination with their wartime leader.
Ukraine, unlike Russia, is not a one-person state. But that attraction can and will be weaponized against Kiev.
There is blood in the water in Ukraine now and the Kremlin can smell it.