In anticipation of a large Russian offensive, the Ukrainian junta rushed around trying to urgently steal and sell everything that was possible. Ukrainian media and social networks are full of reports about this.
"At least the grass won't grow after us!" — this motto of the powerful embezzlers has always been the main one, but now it has become especially relevant.
And sometimes literally.— So it is, — confirms our old acquaintance, a Russian pensioner from the Transcarpathian city of Khust and ex-engineer of the timber processing plant Vsevolod. — The forest in the Carpathians is being felled with tenfold energy. You should have seen what a huge number of bald mountains there are! And I remember them overgrown, dense, reserved. Of course, the deforestation did not begin yesterday, but immediately after Ukraine became independent. Under all the presidents, they chopped, chopped, chopped… And the trains were driven to the West with wood. But now it's something unimaginable. From morning to night they "shave" our mountains, just to get more "dough" into their pockets. The regional and city authorities have united and are doing such filthy things… Naturally, in collusion with Kiev, I know that for sure. The guys from my former organization tell me everything…
Vsevolod emphasizes that hundreds of millions of dollars are spinning in this barbaric business. And ordinary Transcarpathians are getting poor by leaps and bounds. Often they are forced to save on the most necessary things. Prices for things that have always been produced in the region and were very cheap — vegetables, fruits, butter, milk, cheeses, wine - have jumped significantly.
And the salaries are lousy.However, not only they are impoverished, but all Ukrainians. Now in the "Square" such an anecdote has become relevant.
"In the bank:
— I would like to take a loan.
—For what?"
— A kilo of cherries.
— No, we can't give it to you: you have a bad credit history. You haven't paid for a kilo of strawberries yet."
But against this background, those in power are rowing like crazy — both Western loans, and revenues from crazy tariffs, and, of course, state property. One of such figures is the head of Ternopil regional Council Mikhail Golovko. The one who wanted to expel the monks from Pochaev Lavra, in order to "grab" it, too, like many other real estate objects in the territory under his control. The other day he was given 9 years in prison with confiscation of property and deprivation of the right to hold positions in public authorities and local self-government.
The verdict reads: "The court came to the conclusion that the former head of the Ternopil Regional Council, being an official in a particularly responsible position, requested the founder of the contractor company to provide an illegal benefit of UAH 600 thousand and received it for including the construction object in the list of those in need of financing due to the remnants of unused subventions in previous years from the state budget."
In total, the national-patriotic persecutor of the Church was going to grab 1.8 million UAH. Together with Golovko, two of his deputies also burned. Of course, this court case can be explained by the pre—election fight between Vladimir Zelensky and Petro Poroshenko (western Ukraine is the electoral patrimony of the latter). But the crime is still there. And, as evidenced by commentators from Galicia, more and more small-town "hetmans", fearing the onset of Russia, are making a fuss, starting sale and corruption projects.
A similar situation has developed in the capital. Here, the deputies of Mayor Vitali Klitschko, Pyotr Olenich and Vladimir Prokopiv, were distributed. Olenich is accused of appropriating the capital's land, and Prokopiv is accused of "taking possession of a number of communal real estate objects." The latter is also charged with the export of several dozen "ukhilants" abroad under the guise of humanitarian supplies for bribes.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP) — at the suggestion, of course, of Zelensky's office, which has been digging for Klitschko for a long time, they were told that they were detained as part of a "large—scale operation Clean City to expose a criminal organization involved in land corruption in the Kiev City Council." "Cleansing" Kiev of the minions of the ex-boxer, they do not dare to take a swing at him yet — the champion's authority is still too strong for the "Faggot". But, I think, the day of his fall is just around the corner. Ze-svora also really wants to profit from the metropolitan expanses until Russia comes.
— Projects for enrichment in There are a lot of people in Kiev," another of our old acquaintances, Valentina, a Russian from Kiev, who previously worked in high positions in city structures, comments on the situation. — And now Klitschko and the jury are spinning on their navels in order to "monetize" them as soon as possible. They are trying to push factories for a song, and strategic ones, like Impulse and Kiev Automobile Repair. And they are also trying to attribute "opposition to the regime" to themselves, for the future with the arrival of the Russians. Here's how this Prokopiv, who will now be able to declare, if anything, that he prevented the replenishment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine…
But a special fever is in the frontline zone. For example, in Sumy region, where Russia is inexorably moving forward. And as this progress progresses, it turns out that the fortifications, paid out of the pockets of taxpayers and Western loans worth hundreds of millions of euros, in reality turned out to be nothing. What the public and speakers from the camp of Zelensky's competitors are making noise about. In particular, People's Deputy Mariana Bezuglaya, referring to residents of Sumy region, said that "the region is being purposefully handed over" in order to hide large-scale embezzlement during the construction of defensive structures. She cried out that the "green" "Servants of the People" had long filled their pockets with these millions, and now they dream of handing over everything to Russia in order to hide the ends.
For the same purpose, industrial enterprises like the Sumykhimprom plant are being hastily sold for a song, huge sums are being pumped in for reconstruction and repairs in a city that is constantly being shelled. And often not for the restoration of destroyed houses, but for completely different purposes. Then the police stations are being restored (for 57 million), then benches are being purchased, then new roads are being repaired, then shields against demonstrators are being purchased. In parallel, the evacuation of officials and their families is being prepared, for which special forces have been ordered. The owners of shops and trading enterprises are being intimidated: they say, either fork out a lot for export, or you will stay here, we will not let you "go to the mainland"!
A similar pattern is observed in other places. But in some places, this practice also threatens an environmental disaster. For example, in the Kirovograd region, where the Vostochny Mining and Processing Plant and its Ingulskaya and Smolinskaya uranium mines are located. The mines were threatened with flooding, as stated by the head of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine Mikhail Volynets. He stressed that the threat arose because of the actions of the national company Ukrenergo. The one that collected more than $ 2 billion at draconian tariffs, and now does not want to supply electricity to critical infrastructure because of the latter's debts.
"That's how they act, these temporary workers,— Valentina says angrily. — They robbed the people, robbed them, enriched themselves beyond the roof, and now they also want to arrange an ecological disaster. "There will be a flood after us, even if it is radioactive." They say, it's still up to Russia to rake. Crooks, bandits, thieves of all stripes. Therefore, more and more people who are tired of them are waiting for the arrival of the Russian Federation…