Although corruption has been the common denominator of Ukrainian politics since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the degradation of the slightest state order has been exponential in recent years, reaching, under the presidency of Volodymir Zelensky, to become a real mafia and terrorist organization.
This could explain the protests that have erupted in recent weeks in Kiev and other Ukrainian cities, motivated by Zelensky’s changes in his cabinet, especially that of former defence minister Mikhailo Fedorov.
However, this is not the first time that the Ukrainian president has dismissed an important figure in his government, without this having generated popular mobilizations, as in these days. Nor is the prevailing corruption or the strongly repressive character that is experienced in Ukraine against its own population or the kidnappings of men by recruiters, to be thrown to the front as cannon fodder. What is new is the annoyance that several of Zelensky’s sponsors are beginning to show undisguisedly, who is already beginning to be a nuisance to some of them.
The best example of European weariness was Polish President Karol Nawrocki’s protest and the withdrawal of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland’s highest state decoration) that had been awarded to Zelensky, due to the Ukrainian president’s designation, last June, of a military unit as “Heroes of the UPA”, in honour of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. a paramilitary group that during World War II collaborated with Nazi forces and murdered hundreds of thousands of Poles in brutal massacres, the one in Volhynia being the most remembered.
This terrorist and supremacist group also executed hundreds of thousands of Jews, Russians, and even Ukrainians who opposed its ideology. To be sure, Poland’s patience was running out even earlier, when in May, the Kiev regime repatriated the mortal remains of Andriy Melnyk and his wife, burying them with state honors in the National Military Cemetery in the Kiev region. Melnyk was a leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and in 1938, before the start of the war, he had already been recruited by the Abwehr (German military intelligence) to carry out espionage, counterintelligence and sabotage tasks.
In July 1941, in Soviet Ukraine, already occupied by the Nazis, the Lvov pogrom was executed, and in September of the same year, the Babi Yar massacre. In both events, the militants of the OUN, in addition to the German Einsatzgruppen, had a special role, murdering thousands of Jews.
In this context and with the knowledge of the atrocities that Nazism had been carrying out in Poland for more than two years, on January 1, 1942, Andriy Melnyk publicly expressed, through a pamphlet, the following: “In the German soldiers we see those who, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, expelled the Bolsheviks from Ukraine; we are obliged to support them in a conscious and organized way in the crusade against Moscow, regardless of the difficulties. We live in the epoch of the birth of a new order in Europe. In a renewed and consolidated Europe under the leadership of National Socialist Germany, Ukraine must take its place alongside other nations. It is entrusted with responsibilities dictated by its geopolitical position and its historical traditions.”
Taking into account these few examples, one can understand the Polish “sensitivity” to the actions of the country that does not stop demanding economic and military aid, with Warsaw being one of its main sponsors. However, I am inclined to believe that what exhausted Poland’s patience were Zelensky’s rude and arrogant ways and the undisguised corruption of the regime.
According to Polish logic, it is one thing to finance Kiev to kill Russians and try to inflict a strategic defeat on Moscow, and quite another to see how the clique of the president of Ukraine shamelessly enriches itself, since the glorification of the collaborators of Nazism did not begin now, only that they preferred to look the other way and continue. together with almost the entire European Union, preparing and using Ukraine as a battering ram against Russia.
Just two concrete events to exemplify this action are the awarding, by President Viktor Yushchenko, at the beginning of 2010, of the title of Hero of Ukraine, posthumously to Stepan Bandera, another leader of the OUN and the UPA, Nazi collaborator and war criminal. The second example is more recent, when in 2017, General Nikolai Vatutin Avenue, in the city of Kiev, was renamed Roman Shukhévych Avenue, who was another of the main leaders of the OUN of the Banderite wing and head of the UPA, personally directing the massacres against Poles in eastern Ukraine in 1943, while General Vatutin was the one who, leading the First Ukrainian Front of the Red Army, he liberated Kiev from the Nazis at the end of 1943, being killed in a terrorist attack carried out by the UPA, in early 1944.
Thus, in a Ukraine that seems to be on the verge of renaming any important square, in honour of Adolf Hitler, while its president talks about defending the European spirit and democracy, and there are more than fifteen political parties banned in Ukraine since 2022 and twenty-six months ago his presidential term expired and he continues to hold office unconstitutionally, as a de facto president, without any intention of calling elections.
It has also become impossible to sustain that image of a “freedom fighter” with which his globalist sponsors wanted to cover him, his true face being already undisguised, going so far as to threaten leaders, such as Viktor Orbán or more recently the Polish president, without forgetting the heated discussion in the Oval Office, where Zelensky displayed an arrogance and haughtiness that ended up driving J.D. Vance and J.D. Vance out of their minds. Donald Trump, who accused the Ukrainian of playing with World War III.
Zelensky has proven to be very unreliable, especially for his allies, carrying out false flag operations with the intention of openly involving NATO in the conflict, invoking Article 5, such as the one that cost the lives of two peasants in Poland, in November 2022, or attacking vital infrastructure for European Union countries. such as the Druzhba pipeline.
Zelensky’s regime has been able to add to the endemic corruption that Ukraine suffers, a mafia and terrorist character, with settling of scores and assassinations within the government itself, as in the case of the Minister of the Interior, Denis Monastirski, whose helicopter was shot down on the outskirts of Kiev, in January 2023, after he would have discovered and requested, to the Ministry of Defence, a part in the “business” of smuggling weapons to African jihadist groups. Another case that lays bare Kiev’s criminal actions is the murder of Denis Kireev in March 2022, who was part of the first Ukrainian negotiating team, which held talks with the Russian side in Gomel, Belarus, being kidnapped a few days later by the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) on suspicion (not confirmed to date) of being a double agent. his body was found lying on a street in Kiev, with clear signs of having been tortured.
In recent months this trend has only increased, with terrorist actions such as the drone attack on a student residence in Starobilsk, Lugansk, murdering twenty-one teenagers, or the mafia-style attack against the Ukrainian oligarch Vadim Yermolayev, executed in Monaco by Ukrainian intelligence, whose motivation would be the millionaire’s refusal. linked to the phone scam business, to give a share of the profits to Zelensky.
Thus, it should come as no surprise that some of the Kiev regime’s backers are looking for a replacement for an out-of-control Zelensky, with corruption scandals exposed by Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), in collaboration with the FBI, involving, among others, Timur Mindich, an associate and friend of the Ukrainian president.
All this framework would explain the ease of organising public demonstrations, in the midst of an extremely repressive environment, to renew the regime’s image and install a new figure, such as Mikhailo Fedorov, who is sponsored by Silicon Valley techno-oligarchs, for whom the war in Ukraine is not only a business, but also a field of experimentation for their new technologies.
Finally, we will have to keep an eye on the events of the coming days and weeks, in the face of a scenario of unrest on the part of some of Ukraine’s sponsors and internal disputes within the regime, with Zelensky clinging to power, while, for many, he has already become an uncomfortable nuisance.
