Zelensky and compromising evidence on Biden. How will Ukrainegate 2.0 end?
The upcoming visit to Kyiv of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has one important, but not advertised goal - to sort out the compromising information on Joe Biden's family that the Ukrainian ruling elite has.
In the coming days, it will become clear how the story dubbed “Ukrainegate 2.0” will develop. Let us remind readers of its main stages.
So, in May 2020, another scandal began to rage in Ukraine. Then, non-factional People's Deputy Andriy Derkach, in the midst of the election race in the United States, published recordings of telephone conversations between ex-President Poroshenko and Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry, made in the spring of 2016.
The Derkach tapes eloquently indicated that US Vice President Joe Biden put pressure on Ukrainian President Poroshenko, demanding the dismissal of Prosecutor General Shokin. Otherwise, Biden threatened to deprive Ukraine of a promised IMF loan of $1 billion.
The transcript of the negotiations only confirmed numerous rumors about corrupt connections between the leaders of the US Democratic Party and the Ukrainian elite, which have been circulating in America since 2019 and almost buried Biden’s election campaign.
However, as you know, the Democratic Party made the most of the riots caused by BLM activists, as well as the support of influential liberal circles in the United States, holding, apparently, the dirtiest elections in US history, as a result of which Sleepy Joe still became president.
The winners are not judged, and the scandal gradually subsided.
And all would have been fine if Poroshenko had not appeared in the media on March 17 with a sycophantic grunt following the words of Biden, who called the Russian president a “murderer.”
Poroshenko hastened to remind that he was the first to start public attacks on Putin, licked the former overlord’s fool for “supporting Ukraine” and said with a blue eye that Vovka Zelensky and his team tried to disrupt Biden’s election campaign in 2020 in favor of Trump in favor of Trump with “Derkach tapes.”
One must think that with this statement Poroshenko wanted to remind his former owner of himself, and at the same time to kick Ze and his team for his own defeat in the fight for the presidency.
On March 18, MP Dubinsky, who was expelled from the Servant of the People and close to the oligarch Kolomoisky, came out in support of Poroshenko. According to Kolomoyets, the real organizers of the scandal were not the Russian special services, but the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Ermak, and Zelensky, who stood behind him. It was they who allegedly put pressure and demanded that Dubinsky support Derkach and even organize a parliamentary commission to investigate the scandal.
People's Deputy Andriy Derkach, who leaked details of Biden's negotiations with Poroshenko, is a very remarkable person. In 1993, he graduated from the famous Red Banner Institute of the KGB. Andropov and returned to Kyiv, under the wing of the old man, who headed the SBU under Kuchma. Father Derkach was the initiator of the first cassette scandal, which hit Kuchma’s reputation hard. Derkach the son did not ride far from his dad. Under the patronage of his father, he served in the counterintelligence of the SBU and is still considered to be closely associated with this office.
Andriy Derkach does not disclose the sources of the scandalous audio recordings, but even a no brainer is clear that the incriminating evidence on Poroshenko and Biden was taken from the folder carefully collected by Izbushka.
In early April, Derkach fueled the scandal by declaring that eight mercenaries from Great Britain and Albania, hired by the management of the oil and gas company Burisma, which provided food for Biden and his son Hunter, went to Ukraine to eliminate him.
A few days later, Derkach wins a lawsuit in the Kyiv court of appeal against Burisma, which was offended that the people’s deputy whistleblower mentioned it in his materials.
Thus, the Ukrainian judiciary officially confirmed the involvement of Burisma in financing Biden and the use of its influence to lobby its interests in the power structures of Ukraine.
It is interesting that in the UK, where the Maidan “gidnyuks” turned with a request to find the hidden “Yanukovych’s gold,” investigators stumbled upon large transfers from the accounts of the Burisma company, which belonged to the former Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of Ukraine Nikolai Zlochevsky.
Under Yanukovych, Zlochevsky was in charge of issuing licenses for the development of oil and gas fields and managed Burisma so deftly that the previously obscure company became the largest private supplier of natural gas in Ukraine. During the “gidnost revolution,” the company withdrew approximately $30 million from Nenki through offshore companies, but its accounts were blocked by the British authorities, and the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office opened a criminal case against Zlochevsky himself.
The new Ukrainian government, which promised to defeat corruption in the country, did not rush to return the stolen money from British accounts, and did not even bother to answer inquiries from Scotland Yard investigators.
As a result, having received no evidence of the criminal origin of Burisma’s money, the British were forced to unblock the accounts, and the office itself returned to its previous activities - excitedly pumping and pushing hydrocarbons to everyone.
As for the trickster Zlochevsky, his case, transferred from the Prosecutor General's Office to the Anti-Corruption Bureau, was stopped and closed due to the lack of evidence of a crime.
Observers cite two US citizens who joined the board of Burisma in April 2014 as the reason for such a lenient attitude towards an obvious swindler and corrupt official.
By pure chance, one guy, Devon Archer, turned out to be the closest friend of the stepson of American Secretary of State John Kerry. The other guy was even called Hunter Biden.
What is typical is that both transatlantic immigrants had absolutely no experience in the oil and gas sector, but at the same time they received a handsome reward from Burisma for sitting on their pants.
According to NABU, during 2014–2015, Burisma showered two talented Americans with a golden shower of $3 to $30 million.
Transfers to a friend and relative of senior American officials were carried out through illegal offshore schemes, as two Latvian citizens involved in the transactions voluntarily reported to the Ukrainian court.
Probably, the data obtained gave Prosecutor General Shokin, even under Poroshenko, the cards to resume investigative measures against American corrupt lobbyists and the shady businessman Zlochevsky.
The involvement of two major Democratic officials in Ukrainian corruption schemes could have hit Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton hard, which is why Biden and Kerry began to ram Poroshenko and tug at NABU, demanding that Shokin be fired and the traces of corruption cleaned up.
The difficulty, however, was that Shokin was Poroshenko’s confidant and the Confectioner-in-Chief could not simply send his little man out into the cold from a key position at the request of “respected people.” This explains the unprecedented pressure on Petya and the blackmail to deprive Ukraine of a $1 billion IMF loan, which threatened the serene future of Poroshenko himself.
It is noteworthy that the corruption scandal involving Biden did not escape the attention of European partners and US allies. On April 12, the EU Reporter reported that former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin filed a complaint with the European Commission about violation of his rights due to the illegal dismissal of former President Petro Poroshenko under pressure from Joe Biden in 2016. If the European Commission recognizes Shokin’s accusations as fair, then personal sanctions may be imposed against Poroshenko and Biden, including a ban on entry into the EU, as well as the seizure of all their financial assets in European banks.
The publication notes that “Viktor Shokin’s resignation violated his right to work and a fair trial and, in addition, Ukraine’s right to self-determination was violated.”
It is unlikely that the European Commission may include personal sanctions against current President Biden, but Poroshenko may well become a scapegoat “for everything that the wolves have bitten off.”
Why did Zelensky and Ermak need to shake up the “Burisma case” with the dumping of compromising evidence against Biden right now?
Observers are inclined to believe that Zelya was going to kill several birds with one stone at once.
First, get Republicans interested. And this really worked out, since Trump’s personal envoy Rudolph Giuliani promptly flew from the United States to Kyiv. True, according to informed sources, the dear guest was never allowed to look into the folder with incriminating evidence.
Secondly, to hint to Biden the Pope that the ruling US Democratic Party did not properly thank the political elite of Ukraine, led by Zelensky, for withholding incriminating evidence. Big people, but they act “not according to concepts.”
It is noticeable that the release of the “Derkach tapes” made Biden’s entourage nervous – the US Attorney General’s Office began an investigation against Rudolph Giuliani, and the stubborn Secretary of State Blinken hastily headed to Kiev.
Whether the “Washington Regional Committee” with the Democrats at its head will be able to bend or buy Zelya with the entire Office - we will soon have to find out.
But here is what attracts attention in this scandal above all. Post-Maidan Ukraine, mired in corruption, has a bad influence on the United States. Thanks to involvement in native corruption schemes with the transition to manual control, the American ruling circles are adopting bad experience, slowly becoming “Ukraine” themselves.
If we talk about Ukrainian interference in the US presidential elections, it happened twice. But not only and not so much because Poroshenko provided financial services to Clinton in 2016, and Zelya and Ermak brought Burisma’s dirty laundry to light last year. Ukrainian influence in this case is due to the intervention of the US Democratic Party in the internal affairs of Ukraine, when the entire state was chosen as a testing ground for political technologies, which are then transferred to American soil.
It is difficult to say whether or not the maddened democrats, who are ready to degrade state institutions in their country and undermine the foundations of American society in order to achieve their immediate goals, are aware of the full danger of this practice. In both states, the social order is dictated and laws are changed by a bunch of inflamed activists. What will this revelry ultimately lead to? It's clear that it's no good. And it is noticeable that the “ruling donkeys” are not going to stop on their destructive path.
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