{"id":52539,"date":"2023-10-31T13:25:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T17:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=52539"},"modified":"2023-10-31T13:25:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T17:25:43","slug":"about-that-corruption-thing-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=52539","title":{"rendered":"About That Corruption Thing In Ukraine…"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, Breitbart<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n

A top advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has reportedly admitted that corruption is so rampant in the wartorn former Soviet state that officials are \u201cstealing like there\u2019s no tomorrow\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking anonymously to\u00a0Time<\/em>\u00a0magazine, what is alleged to be a top presidential advisor to Zelensky\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that the Ukrainian government\u2019s efforts to stamp out corruption have proved fruitless, given that they were implemented too late to have any impact, including the\u00a0firing of\u00a0Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are stealing like there\u2019s no tomorrow,\u201d the top advisor is said to have told the publication, saying that officials do not \u201cfeel any fear\u201d of engaging in corruption because the firing of Reznikov and others took over six months after Zelenksy was warned that the Defence Ministry was drowning in graft.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another advisor is reported to have told the magazine that by the time Zelesnky acted \u201cit was too late\u201d and that the corruption scandal had not only become known in Western capitals but also among soldiers on the frontline, where troops reportedly began making lewd jokes about \u201cReznikov\u2019s eggs\u201d \u2014 a reference to the accusation that the Defence Ministry had vastly overpaid for basic items such as eggs and coats for soldiers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

For his part, in an interview with\u00a0Time<\/em>, President Zelensky has claimed that battling corruption is one of his chief aims but asserted that the issue is being weaponised to cut off funding.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not right for them to cover up their failure to help Ukraine by tossing out these accusations,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A top official told the magazine that Zelensky has begun to feel betrayed by his backers in the West for merely providing enough assistance to survive rather than sufficient weaponry to win the war against Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, another said that Zelensy \u201cdeludes himself,\u201d adding: \u201cWe\u2019re out of options. We\u2019re not winning. But try telling him that.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The publication went on to claim that officials in Kyiv are beginning to believe that due to heavy casualties over the past year and a half, there may no longer be enough soldiers left to win the war.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even if the United States were to supply all the weaponry needed, one aide said: \u201cWe don\u2019t have the men to use them.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is not a winnable war. All we are doing is funding corruption. It’s time for the peace negotiations that the Biden administration blocked at the beginning of the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, Breitbart reported the following: A top advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has reportedly admitted that corruption is so rampant in the wartorn former Soviet state that officials are \u201cstealing like there\u2019s no tomorrow\u201d. Speaking anonymously to\u00a0Time\u00a0magazine, what … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13417,10348,13013,8702,15249,16855,7146,15069],"class_list":["post-52539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biden-administration","tag-breitbart","tag-corruption","tag-funding","tag-president-zelensky","tag-scandals","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelensky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52540,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52539\/revisions\/52540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}