Mayor Klitschko tells it like it is, while former minister Galushchenko fails to flee prosecution.
While Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky was warm and defiant in the Munich Security Conference, back home, the situation continues to devolve, risking getting to the point of no return.
Outspoken Kiev mayor – and former boxing champion – Vitali Klitschko has come out and said that Ukraine’s survival ‘as an independent nation’ remains an ‘open question’, as the Russian missile and drone strikes on energy infrastructure have brought Kiev to the brink of catastrophe.
Financial Times reported:
“’Right now, the question of the future of our country — whether we will survive as an independent country or not is still open’” said the former international boxing champion turned mayor.”
This has been the harshest winter since the war began, with temperatures below negative 4°F, as the Russian combined strikes have destroyed the three major power plants that Kiev relies on for its central heating.
“Complicating the city’s response, Klitschko said, was a long-running political rivalry with Zelenskyy, which has again spilled into public view in recent weeks. The president has blamed the mayor for not properly preparing Kiev for the harshest winter in more than a decade, while Klitschko has pointed the finger back.
[…] Tensions between Klitschko and Zelenskyy flared up again when the mayor accused the president of ordering the pursuit of about 1,600 criminal cases he said are politically motivated since the start of the war. Only eight of those cases were heard in court, Klitschko said, and verdicts have been pronounced in just two.”
Kiev Mayor Klitschko accuses Zelensky of reversing democratic reforms and opening 1,600 politically motivated criminal cases
The mayor also warned that Ukraine’s survival as an independent state remains an “open question” pic.twitter.com/dhmPlVk70U
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In the meantime, a new scandal is brewing, as former Ukraine Energy Minister German Galushchenko was detained while trying to flee the country.
Ex-Ukraine Energy Minister German Galushchenko detained while trying to flee the country
The Zelensky ally, involved in the ‘Golden Toilet’ corruption scheme, was reportedly removed from a train at the request of anti-corruption agencies pic.twitter.com/cDrKUW0TKV
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BBC reported:
“German Galushchenko, who was forced out of his government role last year after being among officials named in a corruption scandal, was reportedly apprehended while on a train leaving Ukraine. It is unclear where he intended to travel to.”
Galushchenko was implicated in an alleged $100 million corruption scheme, a scandal that threatened Zelensky’s administration.
“The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (Nabu) said in a statement on Sunday that its detectives had detained the former energy minister ‘while crossing the state border’, as part of the Midas case.
[…] Galushchenko was briefly justice minister, a post he held when he was told by Zelensky to resign in November, having served as energy minister for three years prior to that. His successor, Svitlana Hrynchuk, also resigned after being implicated in the scandal.”
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