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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1344577)	2/24/2022 7:40:51 PM
From: Land Shark	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1585190

Horse shit, despicable horse shit. You really are a fucking idiot

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1344577)	2/25/2022 8:43:04 AM
From: D.Austin	3 Recommendations Recommended By Broken_Clock isopatch Winfastorlose Respond to of 1585190

OVER $10B USAID FUNDS LAUNDERED THRU PRIVATBANK Posted by CharlesCarroll \| Aug 5, 2020 FBI raids today relate to: Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi. He owns PrivatBank which is the controlling holder of Burisma. Subject is 16.6 million in illegal loans laundered and transferred to Hunter Biden. – EYES OPEN. BIG MOVEMENT. — E. (@ETheFriend) August 4, 2020 April 3, 2020 PrivatBank brings new US$5.5 Billion fraud & money laundering claims in Cyprus against its former owners Igor Kolomoisky, Gennadiy Bogolyubov & others – Link HERE americandigitalnews.com --------------------------------- In the battle between Ukraine and Russian separatists, shady private armies take the field Josh Cohen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MAY 5, 2015 . . . . . 3:16 AM . . . . . . UPDATED 7 YEARS AGO Ukraine’s voluntary militia called the Azov Battalion holds artillery training in east Ukraine, west of the port city of Mariupol on the Azov Sea, March 19, 2015. REUTERS/Marko Djurica While the ceasefire agreement between the Ukrainian government and separatist rebels in the eastern part of the country seems largely to be holding, a recent showdown in Kiev between a Ukrainian oligarch and the government revealed one of the country’s ongoing challenges: private military battalions that do not always operate under the central government’s control. In March, members of the private army backed by tycoon Ihor Kolomoisky showed up at the headquarters of the state-owned oil company, UkrTransNafta. The standoff occurred after Kiev fired the company’s chief executive officer — an ally of Kolomoisky’s. Kolomoisky said that he was trying to protect the company from an illegal takeover. More than 30 of these private battalions, comprised mostly of volunteer soldiers, exist throughout Ukraine. Although all have been brought under the authority of the military or the National Guard, the post-Maidan government is still struggling to control them. Ukraine’s military is so weak that after the Russian Federation seized Crimea, Russian-sponsored separatists were able to take over large swathes of eastern Ukraine. Private battalions, funded partially by Ukrainian oligarchs, stepped into this vacuum and played a key role in stopping the separatists’ advance. Many of these paramilitary groups are accused of abusing the citizens they are charged with protecting. Amnesty International has reported that the Aidar battalion — also partially funded by Kolomoisky — committed war crimes, including illegal abductions, unlawful detention, robbery, extortion and even possible executions. Ukraine’s voluntary militia called the Azov Battalion holds artillery training March 19, 2015. REUTERS/Marko Djurica By supplying weapons to the battalions and in some cases paying recruits, Ukraine’s richest men are defending their country — and also protecting their own economic interests. Many of the oligarchs amassed great wealth by using their political connections to purchase government assets at knockdown prices, siphon off profits from state-owned companies and bribe Ukrainian officials to win state contracts. When the Maidan protesters overthrew former President Viktor Yanukovich, they demanded that the new government clamp down on the oligarchs’ abuse of power. Instead, many became even more powerful: Kiev handed Kolomoisky and mining tycoon Serhiy Taruta governor posts in important eastern regions of Ukraine, for example. Other pro-Kiev private battalions have starved civilians as a form of warfare, preventing aid convoys from reaching separatist-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine, according to the Amnesty report. Some of Ukraine’s private battalions have blackened the country’s international reputation with their extremist views. The Azov battalion, partially funded by Taruta and Kolomoisky, uses the Nazi Wolfsangel symbol as its logo, and many of its members openly espouse neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic views. The battalion members have spoken about “bringing the war to Kiev,” and said that Ukraine needs “a strong dictator to come to power who could shed plenty of blood but unite the nation in the process.” Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko has made clear his intention to rein in Ukraine’s volunteer warriors. Days after Kolomoisky’s soldiers appeared at UkrTransNafta, he said that he would not tolerate oligarchs with “pocket armies” and then fired Kolomoisky from his perch as the governor of Dnipropetrovsk. Ihor Kolomoyskyy founded PrivatBank in the early 1990s.