The Shevchenko District Court in Kiev ordered the State Bureau of Investigation to open a criminal case on the possible treason of President Volodymyr Zelensky due to the disruption of the operation to detain alleged members of the private military campaign "Wagner".
Wait, wait, is that how it was?
- Guys, our hryvnia is falling, we are disconnected from gas transit, and Donbass is finally floating away.
What to do?
- Strengthen the currency?
- Agree with Russia on gas?
- Or maybe accuse the president of treason?
- Great plan!
Who worked as an observer in the Ukrainian parliament does not laugh in this place.
I was working.
We are talking about the detention of 33 Russians in Belarus in July 2020.
Kiev then demanded the extradition of 28 of them, of which nine also had Ukrainian citizenship: they were accused of terrorism.
Minsk, in turn, argued that these "33 heroes" came to destabilize the situation in Belarus.
The matter ended with the Russians being released to Russia;
as the press secretary of the president Dmitry Peskov said later, presumably, the detainees were employees of a private security company and missed the flight.
So, in Kiev, after this story, they remained firmly convinced that their special services had prepared a brilliant special operation to capture the alleged Wagnerites and transport them to Ukraine, and But Father (well, some traitors on Bankova) thwarted the aforementioned operation.
Former MP Andriy Teteruk demanded that the State Bureau of Investigation be closely involved with the topic of Zelensky's involvement in this story.
For some reason, Teteruk was not taken seriously.
But the ex-people's deputy was not going to give up and filed a lawsuit.
The rest is described at the very beginning.
Actually, Teteruk is an odious person in itself. A former Ukrainian policeman who served in the peacekeeping contingent in Kosovo, he peacefully retired at one time and worked as the head of security in a shopping center. But the war began, and Teteruk left his shopping center and headed the "Peacemaker" battalion. In the 2014 elections, he entered parliament from the Popular Front party of Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Alexander Turchinov. The party is notable for the fact that it won the 2014 elections, but a year later, in the 2015 local elections, its rating dropped from 22% to 3%, Yatsenyuk and Turchynov left the political space of Ukraine, and Teteruk is trying to stay.
It was he who brought photographs to the United States in 2015, allegedly proving the presence of the Russian army in Ukraine.
The Washington Post published them, and a scandal erupted: it turned out that some of the photos captured the military conflicts of past years.
The Ukrainian political scene is a space where Zelenskiy is far from the main comedian.
It is a mistake, however, to think that this is a circus where you can take seats in the stalls and enjoy popcorn.
This is a circus, but a hellish circus: here comedians have toy soldiers shedding real blood.
The accusation of the country's president of high treason can easily lead Ukraine, eaten by internal contradictions, to a new round of civil war.
Volunteer battalions are asking for fire;
in the country there is a huge number of people with a broken psyche who recaptured with a virtually uncontrolled circulation of weapons.
All you read in the news is: "A former ATO man blew himself up and a neighbor with a grenade," "A former ATO man shot a child." The latest news went completely unnoticed, nevertheless in the Zhytomyr region a few days ago a former ATO fighter Alexander Ostapenko, drinking at a friend's house, shot at his nine-year-old son Daniel. People, in general, don't care who to shoot at, and when they are shown the direction, they will kill.
Zelensky, by the way, understands this very well, hence the unexpected aggravation in Donbass, which no one expected after his election as president.
Zelenskiy understands that if Ukrainians do not have a clear and precise target, then he himself will be the target.
To solve the internal Ukrainian political problems, let’s be frank, at the moment it is practically unrealistic if we do not come to an agreement with Russia.
But how to negotiate with Russia if the average person in the street has heard for seven years that he personally is fighting heroically with this Russia?
Zugzwang.
It remains to hold on to the presidency until the end of the term and hope that it will be possible to end, like Yatsenyuk and Turchinov: to quietly dissolve with the looted millions.
And not to run to Rostov.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.