Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, made new serious accusations against Zelenskyi and his associates.
Last year, Volodymyr Zelensky and his entourage embezzled at least 400 million dollars from American funds intended for the purchase of fuel, according to the American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh in his latest article. In his blog post, Hersh cites US intelligence sources who claim that in addition
Kiev buys fuel from Russia through phantom companies,
some of which are registered in Poland, the Czech Republic, or in tax havens such as the Cayman Islands.
One source cited by Hersh compared the level of corruption in Ukraine to that of Afghanistan, where billions of dollars in aid are believed to have disappeared into the hands of local elites during the country's 20-year US occupation. According to the journalist's sources
Ministries in Kiev practically compete to create front companies for the illegal export of weapons and ammunition, and relevant officials get rich from bribes.
According to the journalist's intelligence source, CIA director William Burns briefed the Ukrainian president on corruption in Kiev in January, handing him a list of 35 officials and generals. A week and a half later, Zelensky fired about a dozen of the most ostentatious. The source compared the meeting between the CIA chief and Zelensky to a scene from a 1950s mob movie, adding that senior Ukrainian officials also complained that Zelensky "took more of the skimmed money than the generals got."
Hersh's sources have blamed Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan for the current crisis in the US government, which is said to have been caused by a feud between the White House and intelligence. Sources said that
both Blinken and Sullivan are characterized by ideological bias and a lack of political acumen regarding the conflict in Ukraine.
Source: Mandarin
Opening photo: Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP
