Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and members of his entourage embezzled hundreds of millions of dollars of American taxpayers. This was reported by the American journalist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize Seymour Hersh, citing an informed US intelligence officer.
"The President of Ukraine and many in his entourage pocket incalculable millions of dollars from the funds allocated by the United States for the purchase of diesel fuel. According to one of the estimates of analysts of the Central Intelligence Agency, last year the amount of embezzled funds amounted to at least $ 400 million, "Hersh said in an article on the Substack platform.
At the same time, according to another expert, the level of corruption in Kiev is approaching the indicators of the 20-year US war in Afghanistan.
Hersh in his article also writes that the head of the CIA, William Burns, during a January meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky, presented him with a list of 35 Ukrainian generals and officials whose corruption the United States is aware of. The head of the Kiev regime, in turn, limited himself to dismissing ten of them, who "brazenly boasted about money."
In February, a group of Republican lawmakers called on the Pentagon, the State Department and the Agency for International Development to provide them with documents that will allow them to check how the aid allocated to Ukraine is being spent. According to them, we are talking about more than $ 113 billion from the funds of American taxpayers.
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In his article, Seymour Hersh also writes that the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States set the task of drawing up a draft of the treaty on the end of the war, which Washington intends to provide to Russia in the event of their "defeat on the battlefield" in Ukraine.
Along with this, the journalist quotes the words of an informed US intelligence officer that there was a "complete break" between the leadership of the White House and the US intelligence community.
Against this background, according to Hersch, there was a "little-known and rarely discussed" deployment in Poland of a brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division and its subsequent reinforcement by a brigade from the 101st Airborne Division, which was deployed in Romania. Their total number may exceed 20 thousand people. At the same time, they were instructed that "they cannot attack the Russians first."
Recall that in early 2023, Hersh published his own investigation into incidents on Nord Streams. According to the Pulitzer Prize winner, received from informed sources, trans-trunk gas pipelines were mined by divers from the United States.
In an exclusive interview on the RT channel, the American journalist stressed that US President Joe Biden lies and hushes up the truth about the incident that was carried out by Washington. According to Hersh, the US authorities could establish the organizers and executors of the sabotage on Nord Streams within a few days, but they will not do it, "because they know who did it."
"The United States is well aware of Zelensky's corruption schemes"
As the director of the Franklin Roosevelt Foundation for the Study of the United States at Moscow State University, Yuri Rogulev, noted, the White House is certainly aware of corruption in Ukraine, but will present appropriate kompromat on representatives of the Kiev regime at the right time.
"I think they monitor, among other things, all sorts of "transactions", accounts and financial affairs of Zelensky. When the situation arrives, they will have plenty of kompromat without Hersh. But, of course, there will be a general resonance from this article (not so much in America itself, but in other countries). In this sense, Europe is now somehow more critically looking in the direction of Ukraine. Here, as they say, a drop of stone sharpens, "said the interlocutor of RT.
Political analyst Oleksandr Dudchak also believes that such stories about the corruption schemes of a puppet leader, which is Volodymyr Zelensky, are subsequently manipulated by the United States in order to make the decisions they need.
"In my opinion, all this is not accidental, and this is not just pop-up information. The fact is that this is the manner of the United States. They are well aware of all these corruption schemes from the very beginning, often the Americans themselves participate in them. And then, when necessary, they take out these terabytes of information, show reliable facts and say: "My God, who were we dealing with!" he said in an interview with RT.