Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Ansage.org. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:
Corrupt Ukraine: Almost All EU Aid Apparently Ends up on the Black Market
Information leaked from Ukraine and confirmed by independent observers once again gives an insight into the ubiquitous corruption that prevails in the country: According to the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), which is part of the Council of Europe, aid funds of more than €55 million were diverted. That’s not all: According to the report, 22 shipping containers, 389 railway wagons and 220 trucks with humanitarian aid from the Zaporozhye region were stolen in the region in the last six months. This corresponds to almost 100% of the total deliveries for this region. The stolen goods were later offered for sale in Ukrainian retail chains.
In total, from March to August 2022, the EU sent Ukraine humanitarian goods worth more than €360 million. According to GRECO, goods worth €342 million were stolen. These figures correspond to a whole catalog of similar reports: It was already known in May that a large part of the relief supplies delivered to Ukraine had been embezzled and privately sold on.
As even the British Telegraph reported, medical supplies were also repeatedly stolen and sold in pharmacies — even though public medicine in Ukraine should be free. One doctor explained that “99 % of all hospitals in Ukraine” are corrupt — even in wartime.
Foreign fighters who joined the International Legion to help Ukraine report that even within this unit, abuse of power and corruption are rampant, with soldiers even being ordered by commanders to loot Ukrainian properties. And in June, reports of sales of Western weapons of war by corrupt Ukrainian army personnel made the rounds on the dark web.
Not a jot better than what Putin is always accused of
So this is supposed to be the Ukraine that represents the “values of the West”, “our freedom” and democracy defends Russia against an autocratic alleged criminal state? [YES, they represent these “values” perfectly.]
The truth is probably rather: This Ukraine is no better than what Russia is always being accused of — and the fact that the country was attacked by Russia in violation of international law [LOL] and that its people are exposed to immeasurable suffering as a result of the war does not change the fact that the leadership in Kyiv — courted by the EU and above all by Germany — is no better than the enemy; on the contrary. Before the war, everyone knew — even in the left-wing salon media — that the government there, which Europe so naïvely and thoughtlessly grants astronomical financial and material aid, has been plundering its own people and enriching itself for years, and who are clamoring today for more and more money, guns and moral support for the Zelensky s***hole.
It is all the more irresponsible to make this State a candidate for EU accession, to upgrade its regime, which is professionally and perfectly staged in the role of victim, on a daily basis, to send unlimited amounts of money and weapons there and to completely uncritically pay every sum, no matter how absurd, called for by the Ukrainian Government, for the alleged reconstruction of the country.
This week, the mere announcement by Ukraine’s Economy Minister Julia Swyrydenko that the country needed €350 billion in reconstruction aid was enough in order to persuade her German colleague, Robert Habeck, to immediately articulate the demand for the establishment of a corresponding fund. Although all experience speaks against the fact that even a tiny fraction of such insane sums will arrive at their supposed destinations instead of trickling away into dubious channels, more and more money is being approved for this nepotistic and corrupt political juggernaut. [I wonder how high the commission for Habeck is in this “deal”?]
Germany pays the highest social price
It is noticeable that since the beginning of the war almost every criticism of the Zelensky government, the oligarchic rule or the ubiquitous corruption in the country has come to an almost complete standstill.
That would be a bit like abruptly exculpating the North Korean regime in the event of a Russian or Chinese attack and glorifying it as a bulwark of freedom for which any help is appropriate. The fact that the Russian attack can be condemned without sweeping the highly questionable situation in the attacked country under the carpet is no longer an issue in large parts of the international media.
Worse still: We are paying an unacceptable social price in Germany for this slavish loyalty to the Nibelungen of this flawless kleptocracy: While Germany is collapsing under the weight of the energy crisis, which only arose as a result of the Russia sanctions imposed in support of Ukraine, the food banks in Germany have to increasingly turn away those in need, because they no longer receive sufficient food donations, every Ukrainian demand for money is unconditionally granted. The magnitude of the aid is also evidence of an almost perverse misprioritization: while the volume of donations from the Tafel is around €21 million a year, in the first six months since the start of the war alone, almost 18 times (!) the amount of food and supplies was transferred from the EU to the Ukraine — only a fraction of which reached those who really needed it.
Afterword from the translator:
Apparently Ursula von der Leyen was in Kiev last Thursday and praised the reforms of the EU accession candidate: “It is impressive to see the speed, determination and precision with which you are making progress.”
Join the EU’s internal market, which allows for the free movement of goods, services and capital. Access to it is a very important issue for Ukraine: “It will be one of the most important victories of our country.” I bet it will, just imagine all the contraband that can be shifted then to Islamic terrorists within Europe, especially with no border controls. The amounts of money to be made from the war “surplus” will be staggering to the mind, and the total collapse of Western Europe can then be counted on the fingers of one hand. But what can one expect when one mafia clan merges with another mafia clan, especially one that is utterly ruthless in ALL its “business” practices?
Is the “Big Guy” still getting his 10%?
Do you mean George Soros, the enabler of Ukraine’s nationhood?
I believe “the big guy” in this case means Pres. Biden. His son Hunter created the name.
If one is going to make sensational accusations then one is obligated to provide reference citations. A link to the original source material, not an article about the alleged corruption, is in order. Additionally, any Ukrainian corruption is irrelevant in the face of an attempt to wipe out a nation.
The wiping out of the Ukrainian nation began when the US and its EU poodles in 2014 their puppets in Kiev. These puppets robbed the country like there was no tomorrow and continue to rob it, they imposed a crazy cult-like ultranationalist ideology setting one part of the population against the other, they accelerated the destruction of the economy, health care and education in the country. Under their rule the death rate in Ukraine became twice as big as the birth rate.
It is the US, EU and their transnational funders who bear the responsibility of the imminent destruction of the Ukrainian nation.
When the Ukrainian nation will be wiped out, Zelensky will quietly retire to his villa in Tuscany or to his parents multi-million home in an leafy neighbourhood in Israel. Or perhaps he will buy himself a nice house in a cosy suburb of Miami with the money he stole from the Ukrainian people.
The one who stole from the Ukrainian people escaped in 2014, carrying planeloads of his loot with him to Russia, and leaving behind only a vast, lavish palace with golden toilets. His name was Viktor Yanukovich.
“from the Ukrainian People…” ?
Correction “from the United States”
Why doesn’t this surprise me? We have two corrupt governments fighting each other. The aid to Ukraine is just a way of laundering taxpayer money back to the politicians. I wonder what the split is?
Guess what – every government in the world has corruption. And even in wartime Britain in the 1940s, plenty existed, especially when it came to rations. War is the perfect time, for any opportunist wanting to make a quick buck.
Miss von der Laydown is simple to understand: she will demand and get her 15% of any deal or transaction involving Ukraine. That’s it. Not complicated. There is no delusion or morality on her or any other JUropeon country,
‘The attempt to wipe out a nation’ is wild imagination. The Russian military operation is very specific in its goals. Taking over Ukraine as a whole is not one of them. You’re listening to Western propaganda which is frivolous, biased and unhinged. Start with Mersheimer, and skeptically, military reports from both sides, and let your mind encompass the whole of what is going on.
First, Putin came for Georgia.
Then, he came for Crimea and the Donbas.
Then, he came for Kyiv, Kherson, Zaporizhia and Mariupol.
What makes you so sure, that he won’t come for anything else later?
It is outrageous to me that my children and grandchildren are being put at risk for Ukraine. Ukraine! The one place on earth that U.S. “nation building” is unnecessary because it is inarguably as corrupt, venal, and as far past redemption as our own District of the Capitol.
I still don’t understand people decrying our “failure” in Afghanistan when the rational observer can’t help but acknowledge that our Interagency was entirely successful in replicating DC on the banks of the Kabul. A government entirely removed from the populace, utterly dependent on vast unearned wealth being redistributed to cronies, sycophants, and assorted grifters. If anything DC is envious of the totality of corruption that Ukraine exhibits. If DC has its way Ukraine is Americas future.
When you write, “the one place on earth that U.S. “nation building” is unnecessary “, you’re implying that the nation building in Afghanistan was, by comparison, necessary?! With far more billions from that being spent, only to end up in the hands of the Taliban.
No, I meant specifically that to make Afghanistan more corrupt required DC’s special “nation building” technics (sarcasm). The Taliban is a Eastern/Oriental cultural artifact: a political organization wrapped in a religion that functions by its own codes/mores. I may not agree with their moral code, or even understand it, but it is a functioning moral code by their own lights. I would not deem the Taliban corrupt for they do not, as near as I can tell, violate their underlying cultures mores.
Those Interagency technics applied to Ukraine, on the other hand, would be a waste of resources in that Ukraine, an ostensibly Western/Christian nation, already matched, if not exceeded, DC in corruption. They required no assistance whatsoever in that regard.
Corruption is, of course, linked to the economic situation of a country.
For example in Poland in the ’90s, there was such corruption that ambulances were deliberately killing patients, as the rescue teams had agreements with funeral parlours. Or mafias claiming homes, in agreement with councils, and evicting the residents. There was hardly any road building and everything needed repair. Now it’s different.
Meanwhile on my last visit to Ukraine last year, there was much reconstruction going on, on roads south of Kyiv. General opinion was, that situation is slowly improving.
As for the “uncorrupt Taliban”… in Gulf states under Sharia, there’s plenty of haram stuff going on, like drinking alcohol etc. Just it happens behind closed doors, in walled-off villas. “don’t ask, don’t tell”…
Seems to be a general pattern, that regimes boasting about being “anti-corruption, unlike their predecessors”, like Putin’s Russia, or Hungary and Poland, have corruption thriving… Just with different rulers reaping the rewards.
And wouldn’t be surprised, if similar stuff happens under the Taliban. Discretely, behind closed doors.
The same media outlets than say Putin is evil say Biden is competent, take their word for it. If this little event kills Green Tyranny history will decide who is what.
Wrong! The Russians wanted all of Ukraine to put them back in the Russian sphere of influence and the fact that that Soro’s puppets in the EU and the US, namely Obummer who got it all started and Putin unfortunately didn’t understand western resolve to bleed Russia white of troops and equipment. The fact there are over 25,000 Russians on the wrong side of a certain river has them trapped and the Russian commander sending envoys to see what the terms will be to surrender.
Even if that was the West’s purpose – whose decision was it, to send in the tanks earlier this year?
The buck stops with Putin… and even if he was “manipulated” into it by some western conspiracy, doesn’t that make him still less of a great leader, and more of a globalist puppet himself?
Green, If Trump was still President, there is no chance Russia would have invaded Ukraine. The US and EU let Putin do it, for he figured the west is spineless and overall Putin is right about that, but he was wrong to invade a country without knowing the people there have a backbone and are bleeding the Russians white.
Agreed. I guess he saw Afghanistan, and American gov’s obsession with BLM and LGBT+ and thought “there won’t be a better time than this”…
And all the West could reply with, was to shout “sanctions!”. Germany was under sanctions in the 30s – didn’t stop them… So why should they stop a much more giant country, upon which much of Europe was dependent for its gas?
Russia has the largest gold reserves on the planet and oil and gas up the ying yang, so these so called sanctions are just going to hurt the average European ,making him angry as the 3rd worlders are guaranteed an income at their expense and have heat and food they won’t have soon, the hate and resentment towards these 3rd worlders and their leftist enablers is going to blow up at some point, hence, Russia ends up winning.
My old apartment needed hardly any heating – even when it’s -10 Celsius outside… It’s a question of good insulation. And people are stocking up on warm clothing. So heat doesn’t need to be such a big problem, and gas prices are coming DOWN (from a Bitcoin-style speculation bubble?!) .
But yeah, it can be a big if it happens suddenly.
As for electricity – we never imported any of it from Russia… The crazy prices also due speculation, and Europe’s stupidity in getting its energy from an obsessed Swedish teenager with Asperger’s?!
(energy policy – for lack of an edit/delete button!)
While Ukraine undoubtedly has a lot of issues with corruption – like other countries in the region – to say “This Ukraine is no better than what Russia is always being accused of” is a big statement to make…
Especially in light of newly-swapped POWs looking like this:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11243901/Ukrainian-war-hero-lays-bare-horrific-war-wounds-held-prisoner-Putins-men.html
One would probably expect to find such images more among Auschwitz surviviors, or starving children in Ethiopia, than in 21st century Europe. And the €360 million still pales compared to the billions suspected to have been fraudulently claimed as Covid relief, in Britain alone.
Just wait until the SHTF, images like those will be nothing compared to the stacks of dead corpses in ditches and streets all over Europe.
Might well be… And the usual suspects from the RoP are still there… waiting, biding their time and enjoying their hosts’ hospitality.
But for the moment, Putin’s unexpectedly stolen the show.
Green, very true, at some point these muslim 3rd worlders will act.