World War Three?

[seanD]

Here's the article (translated by google)...

Where are the fortifications? Kharkiv OVA paid millions to fictitious companies

Hundreds of millions of hryvnias could probably be stolen during the construction of fortifications in the Kharkiv region, where the RSNA is now actively advancing. Multi-million dollar contracts for the construction of fortifications, for which a total of 7 billion hryvnias were spent there, were transferred by Kharkiv OVA to front companies of avatars.

In particular, the department Housing and communal services (ZhKG) and the fuel and energy complex of the Kharkiv OVA concluded direct contracts for the supply of wood for fortifications with companies with signs of fictitiousness.

For 270 million for wood, information about which is classified, contracts were concluded with FOP Chaus I.O., LLC "Hertz Industry", LLC "Satisbud", LLC "ATT BUILD" and LLC "DEREVOOBROBNE PIDPRIEMSTVO VOSHOD".

All of them started making millions immediately within a few months of signing up. Classic - under direct contracts and without competitive procurement.
It so happened that the department of the Kharkiv OVA for defense procurement chose newly registered noname firms and private enterprises. Moreover, the owners of these firms do not resemble successful businessmen and businesswomen - they have dozens of court cases, from whiskey theft to domestic violence against a husband and mother, some of them are deprived of parental rights and have had enforcement proceedings for bank loans.

Another interesting detail - it seems that these beneficiaries do not even know that they are millionaires. After all, they continue to work in shifts "in the fields" and factories.
Once again: in OVA, direct contracts for wood for fortifications are concluded with companies whose "owners" do not even know that they are making millions. This is how military information is classified.

"Secret" avatars of Kharkiv OVA

It is obvious that contractors for military deals were carefully sought - people who are not rich, with a number of court cases and debts. Some of them are even related to each other.
The scheme began with the FOP Chaus Ihor Olehovych . Three months after registration, the OVA department concludes direct contracts with him for the supply of wood worth millions of hryvnias.
It is interesting that in July 2023, when Chaus just registered the FOP, he had enforcement proceedings for a fine from the police. Earlier, he was found guilty of stealing a pint of Jack Daniels from ATB. He served 100 hours of community service for the stolen whiskey. A successful businessman from the bad 2010s

The "successful businesswomen" scheme was continued. Both are from the city of Kamianske, Dnipropetrovsk region.
The first is Victoria Smolyak, owner of Hertz Industry LLC. The company was registered in June 2023, and within a few months it began to earn millions from wood. Again, under direct contracts. In less than a year, the company changes four managers, which is also a sign of fictitiousness.

Mrs. Smolyak has not only a limited liability company, but also 5 enforcement proceedings for recovery from banks, courts for evasion of parental duties. A drunk woman committed domestic violence against her mother. Currently, she works at the Dnipro metallurgical plant. Not very similar to the owner of a successful company that earned 116 million from the OVA department in 9 months?

The second businesswoman is Natalia Koval. LLC "Satisbud" is registered on it three days after the registration of "Hertz Industry". Another successful company, through which more than 52 million are driven.

The owner of the company also has a bunch of court cases, in particular, regarding the deprivation of parental rights, being in a public place in a drunken state, committing domestic violence against her husband. As we learned, the woman now works in shifts in the fields. It is interesting that both "Hertz Industry" LLC and "Satisbud" LLC have the same director - Dmytro Knorozov. It is expected, and he also has executive proceedings, where he acts as a debtor.

Through the following companies - "ATT BUD" and "WOOD PROCESSING ENTERPRISE VOSHOD" the Department of Housing and Housing of the Kharkiv Oblast is chasing away millions. Their owners and managers are connected to more than 30 more recently established companies with a wide range of activities.

According to this scheme, the naked eye can see how someone, being a member of the government offices, mercilessly registers new companies, using for this purpose people who, due to the circumstances, may not be aware of this. And this someone continues to make money on blood.

Ideally, this should become useful information for law enforcement agencies and further exposure of fictitious companies that steal millions from the Armed Forces. After all, most of these dozens of companies are currently sleeping and are probably "catching up" for further participation in schemes for withdrawing funds into the shadows and tax evasion.

Martyna Bohuslavets

I suspect we're going to start hearing and seeing a lot more stories like this, because as Russia advances, and the walls start closing in, Ukraine officials are likely going to start abandoning ship, and thus take as much a they can as they do.

[Ronson]

Here's the article (translated by google)...

I suspect we're going to start hearing and seeing a lot more stories like this, because as Russia advances, and the walls start closing in, Ukraine officials are likely going to start abandoning ship, and thus take as much a they can as they do.

The translation is pretty rough in spots, but I get the drift. Essentially, anyone with a working knowledge of Ukrainian language can set up a bogus company, rake in millions (undoubtedly a sizeable chunk of American tax dollars) and then skeedaddle. However, I doubt we will be seeing more of these stories in the legacy media because they don't want this sort of thing exposed; I mean, how did you find this article?

Ukraine is a giant slush fund for corrupt politicians, of and/or Ukraine or American origin. And every gung-ho statesman in DC is a suspect on my list, and hopefully Trump will have the DoJ investigate every one of them.

[seanD]

The translation is pretty rough in spots, but I get the drift. Essentially, anyone with a working knowledge of Ukrainian language can set up a bogus company, rake in millions (undoubtedly a sizeable chunk of American tax dollars) and then skeedaddle. However, I doubt we will be seeing more of these stories in the legacy media because they don't want this sort of thing exposed; I mean, how did you find this article?

Ukraine is a giant slush fund for corrupt politicians, of and/or Ukraine or American origin. And every gung-ho statesman in DC is a suspect on my list, and hopefully Trump will have the DoJ investigate every one of them.

I get most of this info from alternative media. What I meant by more stories like this are going to pop up is that they're going to start being generated in alternative news, stories that also spread all over X and YT (though YT desperately tries to suppress these stories with some success). And I'm personally going to post here every story I come across.

Eventually, though, I believe that once the end comes and the dust settles (assuming this doesn't turn into a world war apocalypse between nuclear powers), and all the finger pointing and investigations start in congress, we will see reports about this because then MSM will be forced to report it.

[Ronson]

I get most of this info from alternative media. What I meant by more stories like this are going to pop up is that they're going to start being generated in alternative news, stories that also spread all over X and YT (though YT desperately tries to suppress these stories with some success). And I'm personally going to post here every story I come across.

Yes, please link to them as you come across them.

Eventually, though, I believe that once the end comes and the dust settles (assuming this doesn't turn into a world war apocalypse between nuclear powers), and all the finger pointing and investigations start in congress, we will see reports about this because then MSM will be forced to report it.

Trump will first need to clean house and get all of the fascist enemies of the state out of the DoJ. Once complete, I think every congressman that voted for Ukraine funding should be audited and checked for foreign bank accounts.

[seanD]

After almost $200 billion sent to Ukraine, Zelensky proclaims it's not their fault, but the world's fault they're getting their butts handed to them now in Kharkiv...

Video clip.

Well, at least he's come down from his "messiah complex" (not my words, but apparently words of those inside his regime) and admitting they're losing.

[Starlight]

After almost $200 billion sent to Ukraine, Zelensky proclaims it's not their fault, but the world's fault they're getting their butts handed to them now in Kharkiv...

I'm a big critic of the US military-industrial complex, and wish that money was spent on healthcare for Americans.

I'm also deeply sceptical of US geopolitical stances that focus on Russia, China, and Iran as major US geopolitical enemies.

However... If the US is going to proclaim Russia as a major geopolitical threat, and If the US is determined to pile trillions into the military industrial complex, then spending a small fraction of that money to turn Ukraine into a quagmire for Russia in the way that the US has, is highly rational.

If the US is determined to see Russia as one of its primary enemies, then spending ~10% of it's annual military budget to turn Ukraine into an absolute dog's breakfast for Russia seems well worth the cost. If, now, Russia, is finally winning it, that's really neither here nor there, in the sense that it really made Russia suffer badly. Russia will be pretty unlikely to gobble up any more eastern European countries as a result.

[Mountain Man]

After almost $200 billion sent to Ukraine, Zelensky proclaims it's not their fault, but the world's fault they're getting their butts handed to them now in Kharkiv...

Video clip.

Well, at least he's come down from his "messiah complex" (not my words, but apparently words of those inside his regime) and admitting they're losing.

There was never a chance Ukraine was going to win this on their own, even with aid from other countries. I'm also not convinced that 100% of that $200 billion from the US went to the war efforts but, rather, a significant portion of it went directly into the pockets of politicians, including our own through generous kickbacks. I've heard it said that the Russia/Ukraine war has been the biggest money laundering operation in history.

[Ronson]

There was never a chance Ukraine was going to win this on their own, even with aid from other countries.

It would be like the US fighting Mexico. Financing and weapons from Russia, China and Iran would have little lasting effect.

I'm also not convinced that 100% of that $200 billion from the US went to the war efforts but, rather, a significant portion of it went directly into the pockets of politicians, including our own through generous kickbacks. I've heard it said that the Russia/Ukraine war has been the biggest money laundering operation in history.

Sean already linked to one case of corruption. Where there's smoke ...

[seanD]

I'm a big critic of the US military-industrial complex, and wish that money was spent on healthcare for Americans.

I'm also deeply sceptical of US geopolitical stances that focus on Russia, China, and Iran as major US geopolitical enemies.

However... If the US is going to proclaim Russia as a major geopolitical threat, and If the US is determined to pile trillions into the military industrial complex, then spending a small fraction of that money to turn Ukraine into a quagmire for Russia in the way that the US has, is highly rational.

If the US is determined to see Russia as one of its primary enemies, then spending ~10% of it's annual military budget to turn Ukraine into an absolute dog's breakfast for Russia seems well worth the cost. If, now, Russia, is finally winning it, that's really neither here nor there, in the sense that it really made Russia suffer badly. Russia will be pretty unlikely to gobble up any more eastern European countries as a result.

Ukraine never had a chance to defeat Russia, so, no, it was idiotic to send endless billions to one of the most corrupt countries in the world. The reason dupes like you thought they could win is because western propaganda lied to you. If an outside amateurs like MM and I knew Ukraine never had a chance to beat Russia from the very beginning, then surely professional military folks knew this. It was good money chasing after bad. If we wanted to stop Russia, then NATO should have just intervened and sent troops there to begin with. That was one of only two alternatives. The other alternative was encouraging the peace talks in Istanbul, but the west never wanted that, which is why they pooped all over it.

[Starlight]

Ukraine never had a chance to defeat Russia

Irrelevant. If you actually paid attention to what I said, I think the US has achieved its primary objective: Making life very difficult for Russia.

[seanD]

Irrelevant. If you actually paid attention to what I said, I think the US has achieved its primary objective: Making life very difficult for Russia.

I did pay attention to what you said (unlike you who always omits large swaths of my posts), but what you said had little merit in anything factual. Though I will admit, I at first actually thought Russia might be somewhat wounded after the dust settled, but it appears that may not be the case, as we may have grossly underestimated their country's patriotism and industrial base. But that's neither here nor there, because Ukraine never had a chance to win, regardless, and that was one of the bullcrap lines sold to us to get us to approve them sending billions of our tax dollars to a corrupt country.

[seanD]

To the Biden shills, this one's gonna kind of sting. Zelensky basically calls Biden a Putin puppet...

Putin would applaud Biden absence at Swiss peace summit, says Zelenskiy

Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said Vladimir Putin will give a standing ovation to Joe Biden if the US president fails to attend a peace summit in Switzerland next month.

On a visit to Brussels where he signed a 10-year security pact with Belgium, the Ukrainian leader said it would not be “a strong decision” if Biden failed to attend the talks scheduled for 15-16 June near Lucerne.

“[The] peace summit needs President Biden and so do the other leaders who look at the reaction of the United States. Putin will only applaud his absence, personally applaud it – and standing, at that,” Zelenskiy said.

In the meantime...



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[seanD]

Escalation.

EU leaders are mulling over allowing Ukraine to use their long range weapons to strike inside Russia...

France's Macron Backs Ukrainian Strikes Inside Russia

French President Emmanuel Macron signaled his support for Ukrainian forces to begin striking across their eastern border into Russia, ratcheting up support within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for attacks inside Russia.

Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Mr. Macron noted that Russian forces have launched missiles from within their internationally-recognized territory, which have then flown across the border into Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region. Mr. Macron said Ukraine must therefore be able to strike inside Russia to stop these types of attacks.

“We think we must allow (Ukraine) to neutralize the (Russian) military sites from which the missiles are fired, but not other civilian or military targets,” the French president said.

Mr. Macron’s remarks come as NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has increasingly signaled support for NATO members to give Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy their blessing to use NATO-supplied weapons to strike inside Russia.

“The time has come for allies to consider whether they should lift some of the restrictions they have put on the use of weapons they have donated to Ukraine,” Mr. Stoltenberg said in a May 25 interview with The Economist. “Especially now when a lot of the fighting is going on in Kharkiv, close to the border, to deny Ukraine the possibility of using these weapons against legitimate military targets on Russian territory makes it very hard for them to defend themselves.”

Addressing the NATO Parliamentary Assembly on Monday, Mr. Stoltenberg again offered his support for Ukrainian forces to strike inside Russia’s borders.

“Self-defense includes the right to also attack legitimate military targets inside Russia,” the NATO chief said. “That’s self-defense and they have the right to self-defense, and we should help them to uphold the right of self-defense.”

Putin's response seems to be implying that if this happens, they'll target NATO territories...

Russian President Vladimir Putin hasn’t remained silent regarding NATO’s discussion of Ukrainian strikes inside Russia.

Addressing reporters at a press conference while visiting Uzbekistan on Tuesday, Mr. Putin said the Russian side is monitoring the comments and behavior of NATO members “very carefully.”

The Russian president further asserted that certain long-range missile systems like the Franco-British-designed Storm Shadow cruise missile and the U.S.-designed Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) are reliant on space-based targeting support provided to Ukrainian forces by NATO member nations. He suggested such targeting assistance closely implicates these NATO nations in any strikes on Russian territory.

“Targets are identified and automatically communicated to the relevant crews that may not even realise what exactly they are putting in. A crew, maybe even a Ukrainian crew, then puts in the corresponding launch mission,” Mr. Putin said. “However, the mission is put together by representatives of NATO countries, not the Ukrainian military.”

The Russian president went on to say that NATO members therefore “should be fully aware of what is at stake,” adding, “They should keep in mind that theirs are small and densely populated countries, which is a factor to reckon with before they start talking about striking deep into the Russian territory.”

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also told Russian broadcaster Izvetsia on Tuesday that Russia would prepare countermeasures if European Union member nations decide as a group to lift restrictions on Ukrainian attacks within Russia’s borders.

[seer]

Escalation.

EU leaders are mulling over allowing Ukraine to use their long range weapons to strike inside Russia...

Way to move toward WW3...

[seanD]

Way to move toward WW3...

When your election is not going as well as you'd like, go to plan B and C:
- Start another pandemic.
- Escalate a war.