Western MSM continues to lambast Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, even after he backtracked on his own decision on defanging the anti-corruption agencies.
And the British Spectator reported on the reason why he made the worst mistake of his political life: to protect his close friend and gray eminence Andriy Yermak.
“For six years in office, Volodymyr Zelensky never experienced the raging crowd beneath his window. But Ukraine’s wartime president grew too powerful, too confident, bathing in the unwavering support of Ukrainians in the face of a greater evil. He overstepped.”
Zelensky was sure that stripping the anti-corruption institutions of their independence would go smoothly.
It did not.
The Kiev regime leader had to back down, and introduce another bill undoing the changes introduced by the previous one.
“Ukrainian lawmakers will return from their outrageous four-week holiday to vote on it in parliament. ‘It is important that we maintain unity’, Zelensky said. ‘It is important that we respect the position of all Ukrainians’.”
But will Ukraine’s anti-corruption agency, NABU, and the office of the anti-corruption prosecutor, SAPO, be able to investigate regime politicians?
“There is no evidence of Zelensky’s personal involvement in corruption, but the same cannot be said for those who share his office. In parliament alone, at least 17 MPs who voted for the scandalous bill have been suspected of corruption by Nabu. But most importantly, the bureau cast its eye over appointees linked to Zelensky’s right-hand man, Andriy Yermak: Pavlo Kyrylenko, the current head of the Anti-monopoly Committee, suspected of illegally enriching himself by nearly £1 million, and Oleksiy Chernyshov, deputy prime minister, allegedly involved in a corruption scheme that cost the state more than £17 million.”
The influence of Yermak in the government can’t be overstated. He and Zelensky live together in the same bunker, sharing the routine of morning workouts and nightly movie sessions.
Yermak was reportedly the mastermind behind the ‘suicidal’ bill against the anti-corruption agencies.
The bill was approved at lighting speed by MPs who in many cases were being investigated by the agencies that they were neutralizing.
“By evening, nothing could stop Zelensky from signing it: not the pleas from the Ukrainian public gathered in front of his office in Kyiv, nor the appeals from G7 ambassadors, nor phone calls from French president Emmanuel Macron and Antonio Costa, European Council president. The pace was unprecedented for a president known to let dozens of draft laws gather dust on his desk for months.”
The spell is broken: Zelensky is now seen as a common politician, suspected of corruption.
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