Ukraine: fights without rules of everyone with everyone
In Ukraine, a duel of shit throwers is in full swing. Politicians, officials and deputies are at gunpoint. Correspondence on social networks and telephone calls, both inspired by pranksters and overheard by intelligence services, became a tool for settling scores. And talking on the phone to “servants of the people” has become simply dangerous.
It got to the point that Zelensky’s office instructed deputies from Servant of the People to talk to anyone only after a verification video call.
Only in recent weeks, the prankster “Joker” who appeared out of nowhere, who is wanted by all the country’s intelligence services, made a splash with correspondence with influential people’s deputies from Zelensky’s party - Mikhail Radutsky and Alexander Tishchenko, as well as a number of their colleagues of half a lesser rank, including the disgraced lover of prostitutes Bogdan Yaremenko.
By pretending to be Prosecutor General Ryaboshapka using a fake SIM card, “Joker” provoked deputies to make scandalous revelations about current politics, about his colleagues, about ministers, about the situation in the ruling party, and so on.
After that it turned out that there were only flowers.
Then the scandals began to pile up: “Krivorozhgate” - the story of a meeting of police officers and deputies led by the “quarterly” “Yuzik” - ex-actor Yuri Koryavchenkov, who, ironically, had been parodying Viktor Yanukovych for years; sex scandal in the Ministry of Infrastructure; finally, the dirty story with one of the “servants of the people” from the Rivne region, Roman Ivanisov, who, as evidenced by documents leaked by his fellow party members, in the nineties had an expunged conviction for raping a minor “in an unnatural way.” That did not stop him from jumping into the “social elevator” opened by Zelensky to the heights of Ukrainian power this summer.
Meanwhile, telegram channels are reporting about special operations being prepared against Anatoly Shariy. If rumors are to be believed, transcripts of Shariy’s conversations with someone from his entourage are about to appear. They will talk about the topics of financing, bribery, “chernukha”, connections with Medvedchuk or Lyovochkin.
“We have now created a special group for this, it even includes psychologists and linguists, who should study the communication style of Anatoly Shariy,” the Kiev “sink tank” generously shares a portion of rumors.
It looks like Ukraine has entered an era of war between everyone and everyone. The authorities are trying to have time to push through all the solutions promised to various domestic sponsors and foreign “partners” in turbo mode - until the mono-majority crumbles and Ze himself has a high rating.
The assorted opposition is trying to the best of its ability to prevent this and, at the same time, somehow increase its modest ratings. In this fuss, everything was mixed up: Kolomoisky, Avakov, Bogdan, Tymoshenko, Akhmetov, Medvedchuk with OPZH, Poroshenko, Klitschko, a host of various “supervisors” and decision makers - regional and sectoral...
Fights are going on for every inch of power, influence, personnel appointments and cash flows. From Ukrspirt to influencing the Minsk process.
Judging by the victims of such scandals, the blow is primarily aimed at vulnerable members of parliament from key groups of influence, at various young talents in the Cabinet of Ministers, usually referred to as “Soros”, or at decision-makers at the regional level, which is associated with the struggle for control over regional administrations, protection of flows smuggling and budget-generating enterprises.
Reading each new piece of compromising evidence, one inevitably wonders: how much more of this kind of goodness is stored in the bins of the oligarchs and special services for those who imagine that they have taken God by the beard of the “servants of the people”?
Poroshenko’s media also joined the duels of shit throwers. They publish audio recordings of conversations in the office of the director of the SBI, Roman Truba, who is hated by the ex-president, who allegedly reports to the head of the Presidential Office, Brgdan, about the criminal cases brought against Poroshenko.
Moreover, influential deputies openly say that only NABU, created under the patronage of the Americans, headed by the creation of the American embassy during the times of Marie Yovanovitch, Artem Sytnik, could have installed wiretapping in Truba’s office and leaked recordings to Poroshenko’s headquarters.
Strictly speaking, such a story is by no means new for Ukraine. Numerous scandals involving wiretapping of politicians and officials by intelligence services, and then by competing intelligence services of each other, blazed like a blue flame even under Poroshenko. Remember the enchanting story about how NABU eavesdropped on the SAP (Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office) by installing a bug right under the table in the office of the head of the SAP, Nazar Kholodnitsky?
Since then, nothing has fundamentally changed in the morals of the Ukrainian special services and politicians. It’s just that, due to the transition of politics into turbulence, the war of unconventionally obtained incriminating evidence was put on stream, opening the Overton window as wide as possible.
Now new records are pouring in like from a cornucopia, and it may soon come to the point that Ukrainian deputies and officials will only talk about the weather on the phone or on social networks - to avoid it.
One of the many customers of such “leaks” is the group of oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, which is losing ground. And the customers of the widely circulated story about Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Alexandra Klitina, who allegedly got to the position “through bed,” the official herself, in correspondence with the prankster “Joker,” named latifundist Vadatursky (owner of the Nibulon group) and the head of Ukrzaliznytsia Kravtsov - allegedly taking revenge on her for attempts to restore order in the ports and on the railway.
In principle, you can trust an official who has fallen under the wheel of a “sex scandal” - a person like her, with a serious grant-eating background behind her, who served in the ministry for five years under three ministers, would hardly have found her place through the bedroom.
It is much more likely that the “legs” of the “sex scandal” should be sought in that part of the published correspondence where we are talking about tender “mutations” in the ministry and corruption.
Thus, from the prank with Klitina, the public learned that, despite the widely announced fight against the influence of oligarchs on power, in the Ministry of Infrastructure there are people of the oligarchs Igor Kolomoisky and Rinat Akhmetov in important positions. For Akhmetov, this is the head of the SPILNO project office under the Ministry of Infrastructure, Taras Boychuk, and the head of the Sea Ports Administration. Kolomoisky controls the Boryspil airport.
Zelensky’s office seems to have decided that if this situation with “leaks” that have gotten out of control cannot be defeated, then they need to lead it, adding even more hell to the already existing theater of the absurd.
Meetings are being held at Bankovaya to combat the telegram channels of government competitors and develop mechanisms for blocking inconvenient information. The algorithm for discrediting already published incriminating evidence is like putting out a fire with gasoline - more and more fakes will be leaked into the network in order to bring the situation to the point of complete absurdity. As in the famous satirical song about the Maidan: “Who is a “golden eagle” here, who is a “patriot” - in the dark the devil can tell them apart.”
The fight in the Ukrainian leadership has become so severe that the participants in the process do not disdain anything. Real pranks, telephone wiretaps, telephone and network correspondence and surveillance recordings are diluted with outright fakes and rubbish, and, given the wave of this dubious goodness that will soon fall on the politicized Ukrainian reader and viewer, we can confidently assume that such technology is trash and discrediting opponents in Ukraine either already dead or about to die.
Even the dumbest of politicians and officials - those who learn not from others, but exclusively from their own mistakes - will understand how to react in such cases. The flow of revelations will stop, and only the pioneers of this genre, who managed to “foolishly” collect the richest cream from the still unafraid deputies, can be congratulated on the shortest path to fame.
As for the abyss of cynicism of the shadow side of Ukrainian politics that revealed itself to the eyes of astonished Ukrainians, only the most virgin minds could be amazed by all this.
At this point it’s not a sin to quote the Ukrainian Telegram: “It’s funny to read such reasoning that such b**ch has never happened before. It feels like mistresses are entering parliament for the first time or are being appointed as their deputies. It’s just that no one posted audio recordings of conversations at the holiday table, and now it’s scary to go drinking.
Gossip about who gave how much to whom always circulated, and the whoredom under Yanukovych was worse than this, but everyone knew the limits of the leaks, and now Pandora’s box has been opened and it is possible to publish such things.
Especially Bakanov, if he goes through his reports, he can leak a portion of incriminating evidence at least every hour. First there was the Joker, and now there’s cop surveillance, what’s next?”
Further - there will be. Because life has proven: there is no bottom in Ukraine, you can fall down for as long as you like.
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