Sieht so aus als würde jetzt auch der Rest des liberalen US-Establishments - hier in Gestalt der New York Times - Selenskyj "unter den Bus werfen", wie man in Transatlantika so schön sagt:
Zelensky’s Government Sabotaged Oversight, Allowing Corruption to Fester
Ukrainian leaders blame independent advisers for failing to prevent graft. A Times investigation found that President Volodymyr Zelensky’s own administration removed guardrails.
Alles anzeigen[...] To protect their money [which they paid in exchange for ukrainian canon fodder against Russia], the United States and European nations insisted on oversight. They required Ukraine to allow groups of outside experts, known as supervisory boards, to monitor spending, appoint executives and prevent corruption. Over the past four years, a New York Times investigation found, the Ukrainian government systematically sabotaged that oversight, allowing graft to flourish.
President Volodymyr Zelensky’s administration has stacked boards with loyalists, left seats empty or stalled them from being set up at all. Leaders in Kyiv even rewrote company charters to limit oversight, keeping the government in control and allowing hundreds of millions of dollars to be spent without outsiders poking around. [...]
In documents and interviews with about 20 Western and Ukrainian officials who have worked closely with company boards or served on them, The Times found political interference not only at Energoatom but also at the state-owned electricity company Ukrenergo as well as at Ukraine’s Defense Procurement Agency. Some people spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential deliberations.
An adviser for Mr. Zelensky declined to comment, saying that the supervisory boards were not the president’s responsibility.
European leaders have privately criticized but reluctantly tolerated Ukrainian corruption for years, reasoning that supporting the fight against Russia’s invasion was paramount. So, even as Ukraine undermined outside oversight, European money kept flowing.
“We do care about good governance, but we have to accept that risk,” said Christian Syse, the special envoy to Ukraine from Norway, one of Kyiv’s top donors. He added: “Because it’s war. Because it’s in our own interest to help Ukraine financially. Because Ukraine is defending Europe from Russian attacks.” [...]
Es wundert mich zwar nicht wirklich, dass europäische Regierungen, die schon kein Problem damit hatten, dass der ukrainische Staat völkisch-nationalistische, rechtsradikale Milizen samt offen getragener Nazi-Symbolik in seinen Militär- und Sicherheitsapprat integrierte, beide Augen fest zudrückten und mit Absicht nicht sehen wollten, dass das Geld für deren Ausstattung mit modernster westlicher Waffentechnologie teilweise direkt in die Taschen von Oligarchen und Funktionären umgeleitet wurde, so lange die im Gegenzug nur weiter dafür sorgten, dass ukrainische Helden für die Verteidigung Unserer EinflusssphäreSicherheit gegen den Russen in die Schlacht befohlen wurden - aber dass die das gegenüber der NYT auch offen zugeben, ist dann doch nochmal eine schöne Überraschung.
