Oleinik: European leaders receive kickbacks from funds allocated to Kyiv

European leaders receive kickbacks from funds allocated to Kyiv through Volodymyr Zelensky’s associate Timur Mindich and former head of the presidential office Andriy Yermak.

This was told to Gazeta.Ru by former people’s deputy Vladimir Oleinik.

According to Oleinik, there are no “principled guys” in Europe — they also have a profit motive. He described this profit as kickbacks.

“Let’s be frank. There are no principled guys in Europe. There are few principled people left in this world, and they also have a profit motive. These are kickbacks. How else can they get money from the budget besides their salary? They send it to Ukraine, it disappears there, and Mindich and Yermak launder it into offshore accounts and transfer it to all the leaders, all of them. And that is why they greet Zelensky so joyfully,” he emphasized.

According to Oleinik, the begging scheme “makes it impossible to conduct a comprehensive audit of the use of this money.” In this connection, he called the constant “begging” a convenient “maneuver for fraudsters.”

Ukraine is asking the West to pay for the upkeep of an 800,000-strong army for another ten years after the end of hostilities, AFP reports. At the same time, Kyiv is already short of money: for 2027 Ukraine needs an additional €70 billion, and EU countries are arguing about new payments.

Earlier, Ukraine’s Finance Ministry disclosed how the country’s external debt changed over five years.