You might ask, what’s actually going on in Ukraine and who’s behind all this corruption and shady dealings with the West. Well, it’s hard to know the entire story, but I’ll drop a few hints:<\/p>\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Who is Ihor Kolomoyskyi? Let’s check <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi<\/b>\u00a0(<a title=\"Ukrainian language\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ukrainian_language\">Ukrainian<\/a>:\u00a0<span lang=\"uk\">\u0406\u0433\u043e\u0440 \u0412\u0430\u043b\u0435\u0440\u0456\u0439\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u041a\u043e\u043b\u043e\u043c\u043e\u0439\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439<\/span>; Russian:\u00a0<span lang=\"ru\">\u0418\u0433\u043e\u0440\u044c \u0412\u0430\u043b\u0435\u0440\u044c\u0435\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u041a\u043e\u043b\u043e\u043c\u043e\u0439\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439<\/span>, Igor Valerevich Kolomoisky;\u00a0<a title=\"Hebrew language\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hebrew_language\">Hebrew<\/a>:\u00a0<span dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"he\">\u05d0\u05d9\u05d2\u05d5\u05e8 \u05e7\u05d5\u05dc\u05d5\u05de\u05d5\u05d9\u05e1\u05e7\u05d9<\/span>; born 13 February 1963) is a billionaire businessman and the former Governor of\u00a0<a title=\"Dnipropetrovsk Oblast\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dnipropetrovsk_Oblast\">Dnipropetrovsk Oblast<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-BVKolG_9-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-BVKolG-9\">[9]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Kolomoyskyi is rated as the second or third richest person in Ukraine (after\u00a0<a title=\"Rinat Akhmetov\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rinat_Akhmetov\">Rinat Akhmetov<\/a>\u00a0and\/or\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Viktor Pinchuk\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Viktor_Pinchuk\">Viktor Pinchuk<\/a>) since 2006.<sup id=\"cite_ref-ForbesLOB2012KP_10-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-ForbesLOB2012KP-10\">[10]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-Rich_Man_In_A_Poor_Country_11-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-Rich_Man_In_A_Poor_Country-11\">[11]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0and 1941st richest person in the world according to the\u00a0<i><a title=\"Forbes\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Forbes\">Forbes<\/a><\/i>\u00a0magazine list of billionaires (as of 2019).<sup id=\"cite_ref-ForbesProfile_8-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-ForbesProfile-8\">[8]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0In March 2015\u00a0<i><a title=\"The Economist\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Economist\">The Economist<\/a><\/i>\u00a0listed his net worth as $1.36\u00a0billion.<sup id=\"cite_ref-economist-20150328_12-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-economist-20150328-12\">[12]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Kolomoyskyi is the leading partner of the\u00a0<a title=\"Privat Group\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Privat_Group\">Privat Group<\/a>\u00a0and a\u00a0<i>de facto<\/i>\u00a0chairman of the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FC_Dnipro_Dnipropetrovsk\">FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Gaurd_13-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-Gaurd-13\">[13]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Kolomoyskyi was included in the list of the 100 most influential Ukrainians by\u00a0<a title=\"Focus (Ukrainian magazine)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Focus_(Ukrainian_magazine)\">Focus magazine<\/a>, taking the 3rd place.<sup id=\"cite_ref-14\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-14\">[14]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>…<\/p>\n<p>Analysts have listed Kolomoyskyi as an ally of Ukrainian politician\u00a0<a title=\"Yulia Tymoshenko\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yulia_Tymoshenko\">Yulia Tymoshenko<\/a>\u00a0and her bloc of political parties called\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bloc_Yulia_Tymoshenko\">Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Rencs_1-3\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-Rencs-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Although according to\u00a0<a title=\"RIA Novosti\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RIA_Novosti\">RIA Novosti<\/a>\u00a0(in January 2010), Kolomoysky relations with Tymoshenko “were soured some time ago, probably due to his refusal to finance\u00a0<a title=\"2010 Ukrainian presidential election\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2010_Ukrainian_presidential_election\">Tymoshenko’s election campaign<\/a>” in 2010.<sup id=\"cite_ref-20\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-20\">[20]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Croatian newspaper\u00a0<i><a title=\"Nacional (weekly)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nacional_(weekly)\">Nacional<\/a><\/i>\u00a0claimed in September 2007 that Kolomoyskyi had become an ally of (then)\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Ukrainian President\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ukrainian_President\">Ukrainian President<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Victor Yushchenko\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victor_Yushchenko\">Victor Yushchenko<\/a>\u00a0and had financed Yushchenko’s\u00a0<a title=\"Our Ukraine\u2013People's Self-Defense Bloc\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Our_Ukraine%E2%80%93People%27s_Self-Defense_Bloc\">Our Ukraine\u2013People’s Self-Defense Bloc<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-natcio_17-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-natcio-17\">[17]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0<a title=\"2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2012_Ukrainian_parliamentary_election\">2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election<\/a>\u00a0Kolomoyskyi was perceived as being one of\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"UDAR\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UDAR\">UDAR<\/a>‘s main sponsors.<sup id=\"cite_ref-CESOlsza\u0144skiUKel12_21-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-CESOlsza%C5%84skiUKel12-21\">[21]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0This has been denied by UDAR.<sup id=\"cite_ref-22\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-22\">[22]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>On 2 March 2014, amidst the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2014_pro-Russian_conflict_in_Ukraine\">2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine<\/a>, acting President\u00a0<a title=\"Oleksandr Turchynov\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oleksandr_Turchynov\">Oleksandr Turchynov<\/a>\u00a0appointed Kolomoyskyi Governor of\u00a0<a title=\"Dnipropetrovsk Oblast\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dnipropetrovsk_Oblast\">Dnipropetrovsk Oblast<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-23\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-23\">[23]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Two days later,\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Russian President\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russian_President\">Russian President<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Vladimir Putin\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vladimir_Putin\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u00a0described Kolomoyskyi as a “unique crook,” and said that the citizens of Dnipropetrovsk were not happy with his appointment as Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.<sup id=\"cite_ref-BVKolG_9-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-BVKolG-9\">[9]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0According to Putin,\u00a0<a title=\"Roman Abramovich\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roman_Abramovich\">Roman Abramovich<\/a>\u00a0has been cheated by Igor Kolomoyskyi. Putin claimed that Kolomoyskyi had reneged on a contract with Abramovich, saying “He [Kolomoyskyi] even managed to cheat our Roman Abramovich two or three years ago. Scammed him, as our intellectuals like to say. They signed some deal, Abramovich transferred several billion dollars, while this guy never delivered and pocketed the money. When I asked him [Abramovich]: “Why did you do it?” he said: “I never thought this was possible.”<sup id=\"cite_ref-24\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-24\">[24]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0In contrast,\u00a0<i><a title=\"The Daily Beast\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Daily_Beast\">The Daily Beast<\/a>,<\/i>\u00a0a US publication, wrote in mid-June 2014 that Kolomoyskyi enjoyed the local population’s strong support. “I don’t care if he’s like Hitler, as long as he prevents war coming here,” says a local restaurateur.<sup id=\"cite_ref-enjoys_strong_support_from_the_local_population_25-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-enjoys_strong_support_from_the_local_population-25\">[25]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>…<\/p>\n<p>In April 2014 Kolomoyskyi offered a bounty for the capture of Russian-backed militants and incentives for the turning in of weapons.<sup id=\"cite_ref-26\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-26\">[26]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0He also is believed to have spent $10\u00a0million to create the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Dnipro Battalion\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dnipro_Battalion\">Dnipro Battalion<\/a>,<sup id=\"cite_ref-enjoys_strong_support_from_the_local_population_25-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-enjoys_strong_support_from_the_local_population-25\">[25]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-WSJ2714_27-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-WSJ2714-27\">[27]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0and also funded the\u00a0<a title=\"Aidar Battalion\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aidar_Battalion\">Aidar<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Azov Battalion\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Azov_Battalion\">Azov<\/a>, Dnepr 1, Dnepr 2, and Donbas\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Territorial defense battalions (Ukraine)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Territorial_defense_battalions_(Ukraine)\">volunteer battalions<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-nw-20140910_28-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-nw-20140910-28\">[28]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>…<\/p>\n<p>Russia asked for Kolomoyskyi to be put on <a title=\"Interpol\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interpol\">Interpol<\/a>‘s wanted list.<sup id=\"cite_ref-29\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-29\">[29]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0On 2 July 2014 a Russian District Court authorized his arrest in absentia for “organizing the killing of civilians”.<sup id=\"cite_ref-30\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-30\">[30]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>…<\/p>\n<p>As of 2019, Kolomoyski owned 70% of the <a title=\"1+1 Media Group\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1%2B1_Media_Group\">1+1 Media Group<\/a>\u00a0whose TV channel\u00a0<a title=\"1+1 (TV channel)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1%2B1_(TV_channel)\">1+1<\/a>\u00a0aired “<a title=\"Servant of the People (TV series)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Servant_of_the_People_(TV_series)\">Servant of the People<\/a>“, the comedy series in which\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Volodymyr Zelensky\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volodymyr_Zelensky\">Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a>\u00a0played the role of president of Ukraine. On 31 March 2019 Zelensky won the most votes in the first round of Ukraine’s real presidential elections,<sup id=\"cite_ref-60\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-60\">[60]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0resulting in\u00a0<a title=\"Yulia Tymoshenko\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yulia_Tymoshenko\">Yulia Tymoshenko<\/a>\u00a0being eliminated from the next round.<sup id=\"cite_ref-61\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-61\">[61]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>…<\/p>\n<p>In November 2019, the New York Times reported that Kolomoisky was behind plans to build a controversial ski resort in <a title=\"Svydovets\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Svydovets\">Svydovets<\/a>, Ukraine. In the article, a professor at a local university was quoted describing Kolomoisky as “a leech who sucks our blood here and puts it in Switzerland.”<sup id=\"cite_ref-62\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ihor_Kolomoyskyi#cite_note-62\">[62]<\/a><\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Basically, there’s one corrupt thieving bastard financing most of the politicians, street thugs, fascists, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2021\/03\/31\/how-hunter-bidens-interests-overlapped-with-banned-ukrainian-oligarch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">son of the American president<\/a>, and having the current Ukrainian “president” as his sock puppet. I read this shit and my head hurts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">America is obviously involved in all of this to the point where it might be behind it all, because the guys Kolomoisky props up end up being the ones America supports and props up in their media as “democrats”, and there are more than hints of Israeli involvement, too. This bastard personally organized systematic shelling of Donbass where 15000 people were killed in eight years of siege warfare, where the entire situation is comparable with the siege of Vukovar or Sarajevo, only on a larger scale, and nobody in the Western news gave a peep about it. It all happened under the radar and was reported only in the Russian news, so that when the Russians had enough of those bastards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stalkerzone.org\/memorial-event-angels-christmas-dedicated-children-donbass-murdered-uaf-took-place-gorlovka\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killing Russians<\/a>, everybody in the West thought the Russian response was unprovoked and “out of the blue”, probably because Putin is a crazy hitleroid invader who will invade because that’s what hitlers do. I find it particularly despicable how Croats identify with the Ukrainians in a sort of national-politic cosplaying, where the Russians are supposed to be some kind of Serbs fighting against Croat\/Ukrainians who want independence and freedom and EU, where Donbass is supposedly roleplaying the SAO Krajina. No, you stupid fucks, you got it all upside down. Ukraine is the multinational state similar to Yugoslavia, where one nation (Ukrainian) wants to extinguish all others, the way Milo\u0161evi\u0107 tried to run over everything in Yugoslavia, causing an uprising in the constituent republics. Crimea and Donbass are the equivalent of Slovenia and Croatia having had enough of that shit and deciding to go their own way, Donbass is the equivalent of the parts of Croatia that were surrounded and shelled for fun by the Chetniks and the JNA every time they got drunk and wanted to “have some fun”, and Russia, in that picture, is something we in Croatia wished we had, but did not – something akin to the Austria-Hungary empire that would side with us and help us. But no, the Croats as always side with the fucking losers. They are so stupid they would join Hitler in the summer of 1945, and they unerringly side with the villains of history, and then pay dearly for their mistakes. If the Russians decided to nuke us for our government’s role in this whole shameful ordeal, I would have no objections, despite personally being on the X.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, I’m sick and tired of all the Western newspapers universally condemning Russia “because invasions of other countries are always wrong”, and whining about poor Ukrainian children having a hard time. First of all, if they read St. Augustine, they would know that there is such a thing as a righteous war, and a righteous invasion – it’s where you intend to stop a terrible slaughter that’s taking place, you design the war in such a way that it prevents more evil than it causes, the violence is focused against the perpetrators of violence, and civilians are not targeted. If you want to whine about poor children, start whining about the dead and maimed children of Donbass, you disgustingly hypocritical pieces of shit. Ukraine is not some innocent country that got invaded by the bad wolf, Ukraine is the most disgusting fascist shithole in the world, who spent eight years killing children for fun and financing fascist thugs who keep the entire civilian population in the state of terror. The entire political scene is either nazified or murdered, the entire shitpile is profoundly interlinked with American and probably British intelligence services and the military, the whole country is full of labs that research biological weapons for the American department of defense, they were on the brink of having nuclear weapons, and I watched how they speak on the social media – I describe them as the turds of hatred. They are vile, slanderous, murderous scum of the worst kind, enemies of all truth, virtue and goodness. If hell didn’t exist, it would have to be made for their accommodation. From what I can see, the Russian invasion is a classic “by the book” example of Augustinian just war, and anyone opposing it either doesn’t know the facts of the matter because he’s been fed bullshit by the CIA controlled media, or he’s consciously siding with evil.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might ask, what’s actually going on in Ukraine and who’s behind all this corruption and shady dealings with the West. Well, it’s hard to know the entire story, but I’ll drop a few hints: Who is Ihor Kolomoyskyi? 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