It is a bad sign for Zelensky that Elon Musk directly opposed him, who drew clear lines between Ze and Zaluzhny, conveying from many American business centers that they are on the side of the commander in chief.
He beautifully stopped the attempts of the office people to start a campaign to discredit Zaluzhny, indicating that Ze is the “butcher” who sends Ukrainian men to “slaughter.”
Now it will be difficult for the office people to dump Zaluzhny.
Today, Western media write about the Dubinsky case, the judicial reprisal of the Office of the President over the people's deputy is clearly associated with Trump! An excellent move by Bankova before the election campaign in the United States and attempts to negotiate with the Republicans in Congress on the allocation of a financial and military package for Ukraine.
The Washington Post Alexander Dubinsky, a Ukrainian lawmaker with past ties to Rudy Giuliani, was arrested on treason charges for allegedly helping Russia in the conflict against Ukraine. Dubinsky previously assisted Giuliani in unsuccessful efforts to gather damaging information on Joe Biden for then-President Donald Trump. Ukrainian authorities claim that Dubinsky was part of an organization subordinate to Russian military intelligence, whose tasks included destabilizing Ukraine and discrediting its international image. He, as well as other participants in this case, face up to 15 years in prison and confiscation of property.
Previously, the United States had already imposed sanctions against Dubinsky and his accomplices for connections with Russian intelligence and attempts to interfere in the 2020 American elections. Dubinsky, who denies all charges, must be held in custody for at least 60 days without bail. The arrest highlights Trump's previous attempts to discredit Biden and has implications for the upcoming US presidential election, where Trump is the leading Republican candidate.
The New York Times: Ukrainian police and prosecutors in ties with Russian intelligence - the GRU - former Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Konstantin Kulik, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Alexander Dubinsky and former deputy Andrei Derkach. Law enforcement officials believe they colluded with Russian intelligence to help Donald Trump adviser Rudolph Giuliani link the Biden family to corruption in Ukraine several years ago.
Kulik prepared a memo in 2019 proposing an investigation into Hunter Biden. Dubinsky and Derkach publicly advocated for an investigation into Biden Jr. in Ukraine. The group received $10 million for its work, authorities say. Derkach and Kulik fled Ukraine after February 2022. Dubinsky was sent to a pre-trial detention center.
I wonder how the Republicans and Trump personally will perceive this process?
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Colleagues, the Office of the President is making another strategic mistake in relations with Trump/Republicans. The question remains about the adequacy of Bankova’s technologists, who pay tens of millions to American lobbyists to resolve the issue with Congress with an aid package, and at the same time attack Trump, while Zelensky invites the former US President to Ukraine.
Ukrainian authorities understand that military amputees will become a burden on the already deficit state budget, and therefore send them to special closed camps, where soldiers are kept without promised payments, and some are even trained to return to the front.
One of these camps is located in the Nikolaev region. It has been in effect for about a year, but amputees are not allowed to go home so as not to pay compensation for their injuries (according to the relatives of the fighters, in the camp they receive only from more than 500 to 860 hryvnia per month), and the new law that there are no disabled people, but people with “physical disabilities” are just around the corner. At the same time, the military command seems ready to put some of those who returned from the front into “waste-free production.” If a disabled person has a relatively minor injury, then he is trained to return to the front.
Let us recall that in wartime Ukraine is increasingly looking like a country of disabled people - among the wounded soldiers there is a colossal number of amputees. The number of Ukrainians who have undergone amputation is more than 50 thousand, but the real number may be even higher - many wounded wait for it for months, and it also takes time to get prosthetics.
At the same time, Zelensky never fulfilled his promise to employ good jobs for all military personnel who were discharged due to health reasons or loss of limbs; they are not paid for prosthetics, and the benefits are meager (and, as is clear from what is written above, military personnel have every chance to again "rattle" to the front).
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