Zelensky’s Great Purge continues, launching police raid against oligarch who fell out of favor with Biden Admin The Ukrainian president’s longtime political and financial patron is no longer in the good graces of the people in charge.
Jordan Schachtel
22 hr ago
Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky just sicced his secret police (Ukraine’s SBU) on Igor Kolomoisky, a billionaire oligarch who was once wholly responsible for financing the Ukrainian president’s rise to power. The significance of the story — regarding Zelensky turning on his longtime patron and Kolomoisky’s other significant ties — was entirely buried by foreign and state media, with most merely referring to the situation as another in a series of “anti-corruption” actions.
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Sbu and State Investigation Bureau are searching oligarch Kolomoisky’s mansion in the Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta embezzlement case. What an interior.
Image A quick rundown on why Mr. Kolomoisky is significant:
He owned Burisma when it employed Hunter Biden.
He financed Zelensky’s entire television, business, and political career, including his rise to the presidency.
He once funded Ukrainian militias, but later argued that Kiev should engage in a detente with Russia. This part is critical, as Kolomoisky’s good standing with the West shifted dramatically after this decision.
Since then, he became the subject of an FBI probe and U.S. sanctions.
He has since had his assets seized and nationalized by the Ukrainian government, and he has been stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship, despite being born in Ukraine and living his entire life in Ukraine.
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Ukraine’s secret police is seizing not only Kolomoisky’s assets, but the property of several high-profile figures as part of Zelensky’s highly-publicized anti-corruption tour, through which the Ukrainian president has received endless praise in the western media. All of these raids and seizures are happening entirely outside of the bounds of any semblance of the rule of law. They are simply being ordered by Zelensky’s office, and justified under martial law rules.
The truth is that these are anything but anti-corruption raids.
Zelensky is running a blitzkrieg operation that is dissolving and disbanding all checks on the president’s authority, concentrating power into the hands of an increasingly authoritarian regime in Kiev, which has now embraced ethnic cleansing and punishes thought crimes.
A couple weeks ago, Zelensky’s three highest ranking Interior Ministry officials were killed in a “helicopter crash” over Kiev, which is hundreds of miles removed from the current battlefield.
Countless regional governors and deputy ministers have been stripped of authority, again, without any due process. Zelensky’s deputy minister of defense, the deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential office, and the deputy prosecutor general are but many of the high-ranking individuals who were recently removed due to “corruption” allegations.
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Image This is not so much an anti-corruption maneuver as it is a Stalinesque Great Purge, the difference being that the USSR-born Zelensky seems not to be the top dog in his own country.
The Kolomoisky raid highlights a Ukraine whose sovereignty has been sold to foreign actors, with the new regime in charge having tasked an actor, Volodomyr Zelensky, with the role of managing the day to day operations in Kiev. In the meantime, Ukraine continues devolving into a failed state, as its leadership remains committed to the abuse of realpolitik and maintaining its maximalist war-footing against a much more powerful neighbor. It all comes to the delight of the western defense industry, which continues to use Ukraine as a munitions laundering opportunity.
The FBI was investigating Hunter Biden's overseas business deals in December 2019 while Donald Trump was being impeached for simply questioning those same deals.
The FBI was investigating Hunter Biden's overseas business deals in December 2019 while Donald Trump was being impeached for simply questioning those same deals.
The FBI was investigating Hunter Biden's overseas business deals in December 2019 while Donald Trump was being impeached for simply questioning those same deals.
In December 2016 both Graham and McCain were in strident resistance and opposition to President-elect Trump.
In December 2016 Marie Yovanovitch, [then] Obama appointee, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, fluent in Russian, was an aggressive behind the scenes detractor of President Trump. More about Yovanovitch’s resistance and obstruction is here and elsewhere ubiquitous.
Widely reported since is that “everybody” in the senior U.S. diplomatic corps knew about widespread corruption in Ukrainian senior government. Yovanovitch knew with certainty.
That’s Yovanovitch standing far-left, next to Senator Amy Klobuchar above. This photo taken during a combat front lines visit to Ukrainealso in December 2016 when McCain and Graham received their “awards.”
Yovanovitch took her ambassadorial post to Ukraine in August 2016. Hunter Biden was on the board of directors for the Ukrainian oil concern Burisma in August 2016. Obama officials briefed Yovanovitch about Hunter Biden’s Ukrainian suspect employment while preparing her for a senate confirmation hearing.
Yovanovitch was well briefed that Hunter Biden, before and while employed at Burisma, was a drug addict, discharged from the Navy for cocaine use, a regular of strip bars, and in so many other ways a person of ill repute (more about Hunter Biden hereand here).
I add it’s not publicly known how the Navy characterized Hunter Biden’s military discharge. Was it Honorable? General? Other than honorable? Bad conduct discharge? Dishonorable discharge?
Anyone in the military, or who was in the military, will be quick to confirm just how important a persons military discharge papers are while seeking civilian employment. The question regarding one’s military characterization of discharge tops the list for employers considering veterans.
Not reported nearly enough is that McCain was a retired Navy Captain and Graham is a retired Air Force Colonel (both O-6s); senior U.S. military officers, when they each accepted the Ukrainian medals.
Oh yeah…also both sitting U.S. senators.
WOW!
On their own authority, and in the positions they held at the time, Senators Klobuchar, McCain and Graham knew of Hunter malignant resume prior to boy Biden’s Ukrainian job and of Biden junior’s miscreant behavior as it was known in December 2016.
Captain McCain and Colonel Graham were certainly in the loop to be advised regarding the details of little Biden’s military separation.
No matter. In December 2016, Yovanovitch was duty bound to repeat what she knew of baby Biden before Captain McCain and Colonel Graham met with Poroshenko to receive their “ restigious” Ukrainian medals.
It’s not a reach for the notion now advanced that Klobuchar, McCain, Graham, Yovanovitch and scores of others were in a position to ask Poroshenko what in the world was Hunter Biden doing on the Burisma board with such a malignant and disreputable background.
It’s certainly appropriate for two senior U.S. military officers to put the question to the Ukraine president, why was junior Biden, a U.S. citizen, doing working in Ukraine having received a less than honorable U.S. military discharge? (Note: I recognize junior Biden may have been granted a honorable discharge in the political landscape we are in, one reason why Navy officials have not made Bidens Navy discharge characterization public. Wouldn’t that be something’?).
Moving on: I do not know what the following words mean:
What did Captain McCain and Colonel Graham DO to earn Poroshenko’s Ukrainian special recognition? Better question: Why did these two senior U.S. military officers ACCEPT the Ukraine medals?
In the military, we subscribe to the belief that words mean things. We narrate the reason awards are made in the written citation. Please indulge the notion that the narrative Poroshenko handed out to McCain and Graham means nothing. (For more on the subject of political double speak I present Mr. George Carlin).
If the reason Poroshenko gave Captain McCain and Colonel Graham medals for not asking questions about Hunter Biden, I would have understood that.
Poroshenko should have said so. And it sure would have avoided a great deal of recent upset here in the United States.
And should anyone out there know, how was Hunter Biden’s Navy discharge characterized? And who is Hunter Biden working for now?
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