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Government Corruption

Ukrainian Fire Point = money laundry

2026-05-14

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited

Text taken from the Telegram channel of legitimniy

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] It was precisely for this purpose that Zelensky's entourage (Mindich and company) created their defense technology company, which was supposed to quickly "launder/whiten" the billions plundered during the war. They needed a company capable of laundering at least a billion dollars a year. This is because, using "glued-together drones" made from Chinese components, this is time-consuming, complex, expensive, etc. It's also difficult with cheap body armor, etc.
From Wikipedia: Timur Mykhailovych Mindich[1] (Ukrainian: Тімур Михайлович Miндіч, born 19 September 1979) is a Ukrainian-Israeli entrepreneur, film producer and the co-owner of Kvartal 95 Studio.
He is also accused of being the "mastermind behind a $100 million embezzlement scheme involving top officials and Ukraine’s state nuclear power company.
That's why they publicly announced figures of 100 missiles per month (at a price of $1 million per missile, they could have spent +/- $1.2 billion per year). The scheme was similar to the one with drones. They would launch/glue together 3-5 missiles, and demonstratively send them off somewhere along with drones and Western missiles.

All the success would be attributed to the FP (Flamingo) missiles. On paper, they would say they were producing 100 missiles and launching 100 per month. The difference would be transferred abroad as "white money." This has been done with drones for a long time, but it's very difficult to launder such huge sums per month. The guys were in a hurry. The guys failed.

The mansions near Kyiv won't build themselves. And the accounts abroad won't fill up. The funniest thing is that the Americans, of course, knew about all this, but didn't touch the whole scheme until the political go-ahead was given. And then suddenly everyone noticed.

The mansions near Kyiv, the money laundering, and Yermak the corrupt official. Nobody knew anything. It appears that recent contacts between Trump and Putin, as well as Moscow's public statements that the "spirit of Anchorage" is running out in May, have forced the US to stir a bit and use its existing leverage against the cocaine-fuehrer's gang, uncovering large-scale theft and corruption, as condensed in the interview with Mendel, who, through Carlson, conveys to American audiences that Zelensky is a Nazi and a drug addict.

It's not a given that this will lead to concrete results, but the fact that the US was forced to air dirty laundry in public after warnings from Moscow is quite telling.

P.S. The US has extensive experience dealing with Ukrainian corrupt officials, dating back to the days of Pasha Lazarenko.

P.S. 2. Yermak should be given a preventive measure in the next two days. Most likely, house arrest.

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