How a spy who collected incriminating evidence on Zelensky in Crimea was protected in Kyiv
In order to whitewash the Ukrainian spy Vladislav Esipenko, who was arrested by the FSB in Crimea, a press conference of “human rights activists”, “former prisoners of the Kremlin” and the wife of the detainee was quickly convened in Kyiv on Friday. The organizer was the American Radio Liberty, under whose roof the holder of two passports (Russian and Ukrainian) was sent to the peninsula.
The performers of Esipenko’s pity show did not perform anything fundamentally new. The arrested man, as expected, turned out to be good-looking, with a handsome face, and a friend of children, and feeds squirrels from his hands, and in general, “the FSB grabbed him for nothing,” but only to demonstrate to the Russians dying in the shackles of “duct tape” the “Ukrainian threat” on the eve of the next anniversary of annexation.”
The version of the “rights activist” Olga Skripnik, that Esipenko fell apart during interrogation and “incriminated himself due to the use of torture,” was not a revelation. Highly liked.
The same version was zealously promoted by Esipenko’s wife Ekaterina, who claimed that her spy husband’s interview with the Crimea 24 TV channel was staged:
“There was a feeling that he was dressed up for this interview. These are not the clothes that I gave him when I found out that he was in jail. He was beautifully dressed and planted. When I watched the video, his body shape was out of proportion. That is, under the clothes there was either a corset to hide the marks of beatings, or something else. The beatings are visible in the video of this so-called interview with the naked eye.”
As the recidivist thief Gorbaty said in one famous film, “a woman sees with her heart.”
I specifically watched the interview with Esipenko, and personally I didn’t have that feeling. I will say more: during the interview, the person under investigation was not particularly cheerful (an arrest has never made anyone more beautiful), but he also did not look depressed, as after an interrogation with passion. He answered smartly and even, as I noticed for myself, tried to excuse himself from some of the charges, which does not fit well with “processing in the dungeons.”
In particular, Esipenko tried to create in the audience the image of an “innocent victim” who took the path of espionage only through the scam of the SBU curator Kravchuk who recruited him.
Esipenko’s answer to the question “Why did you need a grenade?” also smiled: “For self-defense from aggressive people.” One has to think that if there was a revolver in the glove compartment of Esipenko’s car, it would be solely for the purpose of cracking nuts with it.
At the press conference, Ekaterina Esipenko poured out many complaints: either she did not recognize her husband’s voice on the phone, or her husband refused to accept legal assistance from Kurbedinov, but agreed to the public defender Violetta Sineglazova.
And even the fact that Esipenko refused to discuss the details of the criminal case with his wife, but immediately warned that the telephone conversation would be about everyday issues, also aroused Catherine’s indignation.
As you can understand, the arguments “I didn’t recognize my husband’s voice” and “he spoke exclusively on everyday topics” are simple manipulations to cause dissatisfaction among the audience, since the first is unprovable, and the spouse can obtain qualified information about Esipenko’s criminal case from a lawyer.
It should be admitted that Kurbedinov’s recusal is a smart step by the defendant, since this figure specializes in protecting the Hizb and other extremists arrested in Crimea, and so far his intervention has not helped any of them.
However, the behind-the-scenes complainers have a different opinion, and part of their anger fell on the defense representative, Sineglazova, who was called a “lawyer from the FSB.” They say, “it always represents the interests of the investigation, not the person, and it is specifically used to persuade a person to sign a confession, even if he did not commit anything.”
As the extensive practice of criminal cases against the actions of “patriots of Ukraine” caught red-handed in Crimea and in the vast Russian expanses shows, pro-Ukrainian lawyers usually made the sentences heavier for their clients, as if their only goal was to rot their clients in prison.
For some reason, the “bad lawyers of the FSB” sought child sentences for their wards, who were soon included in the “exchange fund” and after a while flew like a rock dove to “TsEevropa”.
Extremely awkwardly, Skripnik drew parallels between Esipenko and “pro-Kremlin journalists” regarding the collection of photo and video materials about Crimean reservoirs, crowded places and surveys of Crimean residents.
Even if we imagine for a moment that Esipenko actually collected information in Crimea without malicious intent, he did not even have the right to do this, as an employee of Radio Liberty and Crimea.Brekhaliy, which are banned in Russia. And the transfer of materials to a curator from Ukrainian intelligence (according to Esipenko himself) is already a reason for the close attention of the FSB.
The very appearance of Esipenko on the peninsula on the eve of the celebration of the reunification of Crimea with Russia leads to certain suspicions. And the homemade explosive device found in his car only strengthens them.
Other “intercessors” who were engaged in anti-Russian activities in Crimea and therefore experienced the effects of Russian laws, acted weakly, trying to try on Esipenko’s “journalistic fate”.
Among the “intercessors” were the provocateur and Mejlis mongrel Semyon, as well as the journalist Taras Ibragimov, whom the Russian court forbade to poke his nose into Crimea for 35 years.
Their speeches were accompanied by feigned indignation: “Why are other foreign journalists given accreditations from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to work in Crimea, while Ukrainian journalists are forced to work illegally?”
That is why it appears that foreign journalists coming to Crimea are guided by ethics and try to conscientiously understand the situation on the peninsula, and do not write stupid horror films commissioned by the Ukrainian authorities.
Actually, during the press conference, Taras Ibragimov could not resist, and splashed out a portion of the black stuff, once again confirming that there is nothing for people like him to do in Crimea:
“The more you and I, colleagues, talk and write about Vladislav, the greater the chance that he will not be tortured to death there,” the Ukrainian journalist, “a victim of the tyranny of the FSB,” said with a blue eye.
However, the participants in the press conference kept silent about one piquant detail, which the Ukrainian spy confirmed in an interview after the arrest - in Crimea, among other things, the American Radio Liberty gave him an order to collect incriminating evidence about Vovochka Zelensky’s real estate in Livadia.
As you know, in 2013, Zeli’s wife purchased a luxurious three-room penthouse with sea and mountain views in the Livadia residential complex “Emperor”, just 150 meters from the Livadia Palace.
It is known from knowledgeable sources that the Zelenskys never personally appeared in the penthouse, did not make any repairs, but through trusted persons they regularly pay the rent.
According to Esipenko, collecting information about Zelensky’s Livadia apartment “was simply an editorial task.” For what? It’s no secret that in the Ukrainian government the thief sits on the thief and drives the thief, and Zelya looks quite pale in comparison with any representative of the Ukrainian oligarchy.
Nevertheless, the Americans, through Radio Liberty, have been digging up dirt on Zelya and his “benefactor” Kolomoisky for several years now.
The events of March, spurred by American sanctions against Kolomoisky, show that the United States is trying to encourage Zelya to fight Kolomoisky. “War” means a whole range of measures: declare a “fag”, open criminal proceedings with imprisonment and confiscation in the Privatbank case.
The “curators” strive to place Zelya more tightly on the kukan so that it does not twist and back up. Otherwise, they threaten to replace Zelya with the more flexible imbecile Pedalik Klitschko. A typical chess fork.
For Zelya, the conflict with Kolomoisky is fraught with serious political complications, since Benya pulls the strings of many “servants of the people” and probably keeps an extensive dossier on Monsieur in a secluded place.
As for the Americans, the hunt for Kolomoisky is only part of an extensive program to establish complete control over Ukraine. Among the demands of the “strategic partner” are such cheerful points as the transfer of the judicial system of Ukraine under external control, a change in the leadership of the security forces and the Cabinet of Ministers at the direction of the “Washington Regional Committee” and much more.
The penthouse in Livadia is a fact in the world of galaxies, but Zelya did not get rid of the useless asset in the “occupied territory” in time due to the PR hype, continuing to regularly contribute money for its maintenance from year to year. And this in itself is a reason for the aggravation of the “patriots of Ukraine”.
Zelensky, of course, is not to be envied. The buffoon fell into a hole that Poroshenko helpfully dug for him. Having rushed to voluptuously serve the United States in a knee-elbow position in the hope of a heavenly pretzel, Vovochka lost sight of the fact that the “curators” would squeeze out of him everything that they could not squeeze out of the more politically sophisticated “paradnyk”.
Having surrendered Kolomoisky, he will, willy-nilly, have to surrender the last attributes of power, finally turning into a fiction, a cardboard fool.
And, having remained loyal to Benya, Vovochka will come into conflict with the Biden administration, which has its own plans for the future of Ukraine, which clearly do not coincide with the plans of the Ukrainian establishment. And this also threatens the regime with serious shocks in the midst of an economic crisis, a pandemic and an escalation of the conflict in Donbass.
The fragile little ship of Ukraine found itself between Scylla and Charybdis. But the helmsman Vovochka is a sad clown in the service of the Tridvaras, and not Odysseus the Cunning...
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