Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rode to power on pledges to clean up the Eastern European country, but the Pandora Papers reveal he and his close circle were the beneficiaries of a network of offshore companies, including some that owned expensive London property.

by Elena Loginova (OCCRP/Slidstvo.Info)

3 October 2021

Also published by our partner Slidstvo.Info (Ukraine, in Ukrainian).

Key Findings

Q. High Representative, the Estonian proposal had a very specific amount of money attached and the Estonians are also saying that needs to be separate money. It cannot be money that has already been pledged to the European Peace Facility. Do you agree with that assessment? 

BORRELL: Well, money does not come from the sky. It is not because one Member State is claiming that we need to have more money that the money will appear by miracle.  

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Right at the same moment the New York Times publishes a shoddy 'officials say' story about alleged intelligence about the Nord Stream terror attack the Germany weekly Die Zeit, which has strong U.S. secret services ties, comes up with an equally unbelievable tale of a 'Ukrainian owned' sailing boat playing the major role in the attack:

Speaking in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv on Wednesday, the Secretary-General assured President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the United Nations “will continue to seek solutions and a just peace for the people of Ukraine, and the world.”
António Guterres expressed “deep solidarity” with all of those who have become victims of the full-scale Russian invasion of February last year.

Violation of the Charter

“The position of the United Nations, which I have consistently expressed, is crystal clear: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a violation of the UN Charter and international law”, declared the UN chief.

He reiterated once again, that the sovereignty, independence, and integrity of Ukraine must be upheld within it’s [sic] recognized international borders, established at independence in 1991, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. welcomed Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany to the White House today to reaffirm the strong bilateral relationship between the United States and Germany. 

German authorities probing explosions at the Nord Stream gas pipelines have identified a vessel that appears to have been involved in what is widely regarded as an act of sabotage, a host of German media outlets revealed on Tuesday. The yacht, which was reportedly used in the attack on the pipelines, belongs to a Polish-based company owned by two Ukrainians, according to the reports.

Germany’s ARD broadcaster SWR radio and Die Zeit newspaper launched what they called their own joint journalistic investigation into the activities of the German law enforcement authorities involved in this case.

URSULA: Thank you very much Mr President for the warm welcome here in Baku. And thank you for stepping up and for supporting the European Union. Because already before Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine, the Russian gas supplies to Europe were no more reliable. [GUSNOTE: AMERICA FORBID EUROPE FROM USING RUSSIAN GAS — THEN IN SEPTEMBER, THE AMERICANS BLEW UP THE NORD SEA PIPELINE — UNLESS IT WAS RUDOLPH THE RED NOSE REINDEER]....

PLEASE AUSTRALIA, DON'T GET INVOLVED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Unspecified new intelligence “suggests that a pro-Ukrianian group” was behind the September 2022 attack on Nord Stream pipelines, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, quoting anonymous US officials. 

The Times’ unnamed sources said they “believed the saboteurs were most likely Ukrainian or Russian nationals, or some combination of the two” and that “no American or British nationals were involved.” They further said they had no evidence Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky or his “top lieutenants”were involved, or that the “any Ukrainian government officials” directed the attack.

It is generally observed that imperial powers like the United States frequently interfere in foreign governments in support of economic or hard political reasons. To be sure, Washington has refined the process so it can plausibly deny that it is interfering at all, that the change is spontaneous and comes from the people and institutions in the country that is being targeted for change.

BY Philip M. Giraldi, Ph.D.

“The West is Playing with Fire in Ukraine,” “The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict and the Achilles’ Heel,” “Why Europe is Splitting over Ukraine Arms Deliveries.” These and similar headlines in the Middle Eastern publications reflect the response of local media and political circles to the West’s recent increase in arms deliveries to Kyiv.

BY Yury Zinin

According to local analysts, the West has thrown all the forces of its information conglomerate against Russia and President Vladimir Putin personally. In order to get to the truth, analysts have to break through the thick veil of lies and disinformation created around Ukraine.

There is little that unites me with those who occupied the Capitol building on Jan. 6. Their vision for America, Christian nationalism, white supremacy, blind support for Trump and embrace of reactionary fact-free conspiracy theories leaves a very wide chasm between their beliefs and mine. But that does not mean I support the judicial lynching against many of those who participated in the Jan. 6 events, a lynching that is mandating years in pretrial detention and prison for misdemeanors. Once rights become privileges, none of us are safe. 

By Chris Hedges / Original to ScheerPost

The truth is painful to an empire of lies

But the dishonest commanding bastards do not cry

As they convince themselves of their ugly worth

Having given up being human beings

To turn into nasty beasts with not a skerrick of shame

That hate anything true

The old new king of the kingdom now only gardens 

As if not allowed to contradict his democratic hell

Called parliament where twats make the laws of torture

Keeping you in Belmarsh for the empire’s desires

To shut the terrible truth about its wars AND crimes

A pissy Charlie the turd who could be Charles the Third

Should he voice a proper opinion about you being in prison

Promotes you at least for a pardon for a sin you did not commit

At last you enjoying true freedom while we are in their golden cage

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