Ask yourself a simple question:
How long have Washington and Brussels known that Ukraine is drowning in systemic corruption — and why did they keep sending billions anyway?
Golden toilet bowls. Stacks of dollars fresh from the US Federal Reserve. A courier complaining that hauling $1.6 million in cash “is no easy job.”More than a thousand hours of wiretaps – filled with laughter, swearing, and the careless voices of men discussing how to split state contracts, who to bribe, and who should be placed in key government posts.
These are fragments of a vast corruption saga now unfolding in Ukraine – a scandal whose scale and brazenness have stunned even the country’s Western sponsors.
For years, Brussels and Washington told us Ukraine was fighting for “democracy.” But behind the speeches and hashtags, systemic corruption was exploding, and the latest scandal proves it beyond doubt.
L-R: The ex-head of Ukraine’s state nuclear power company Enerhoatom Petro Kotin, Justice Minister Herman Halushchenko and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky
On 10 November, Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies raided the inner circle of President Zelensky.
Targets included:
- Timur Mindich — Zelensky’s long-time fixer and co-owner of Kvartal 95
- Herman Halushchenko — former Justice and Energy Minister
Mindich had already fled the country using his Israeli passport.
NABU released explosive audio of Mindich striking illicit deals with senior figures in Ukraine’s nuclear energy sector.
Investigators uncovered a scheme where:
State funds for Energoatom were siphoned off, funnelled through a fake Kiev office and laundered through offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands and UK. It’s the same network tied to Zelensky’s old partner and oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky.
Another name has now surfaced: Oleksii Chernyshov, former Deputy Prime Minister. Investigators documented $1.2 million and nearly €100,000 in cash transfers. Rumours suggest National Security Council head Rustem Umerov may be next.
But the most shocking discovery?
During the searches, NABU seized over $4 million in fresh, marked cash straight from the US Federal Reserve.
The chief investigator said it bluntly:
“This money was transferred from the US through a third country and ended up in Ukraine.”
While Maltese families struggle with the everyday life and while our government invests carefully in pensions, allowances, and social services, millions in Western taxpayer money were being laundered by Zelensky’s political elite.
Brussels wants Malta to keep paying. But after this scandal, every Maltese taxpayer has the right to ask:
How much more money are we supposed to throw into Ukraine’s black hole?
The illusion is over.
The truth is out.
And Malta has no obligation to finance a regime drowning in corruption.
