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To: TobagoJack who wrote (189984)7/17/2022 8:06:53 PM
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Zelenskyy fires security chiefs over ‘treasonous’ officials

Head of SBU and chief prosecutor sacked after scores of staff accused of working alongside Russian forces

2 hours ago

Iryna Venediktova has been fired as Ukraine’s chief prosecutor © RAMON VAN FLYMEN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired the head of Ukraine’s state security service and the chief prosecutor on Sunday over allowing alleged treachery and collaboration by scores of their officials with Russian forces in occupied territories.

Announcing the sackings in his nightly television address, Zelenskyy said more than 60 staff belonging to the two law enforcement agencies had “remained in the occupied territory and are working against our state”.

In total, 651 criminal proceedings had been opened for “treason and collaboration activities”, he added.

“Such an array of crimes against the foundations of the state’s national security, and the links recorded between Ukrainian security forces and Russian special services raise very serious questions about their respective leaders,’’ he said.

Zelenskyy used his sweeping wartime powers to remove Ivan Bakanov as chief of the SBU intelligence and security service and Iryna Venediktova, who as prosecutor-general had been spearheading investigations into war crimes by Russian forces following their full-scale invasion.

Bakanov is a former close ally of Zelenskyy who previously ran his television production company and then his campaign for the presidency in 2019.

After Zelenskyy’s election victory, Bakanov was appointed as security chief charged with cleaning up a sprawling service tainted by corruption and residual infiltration by Russian agents, despite his own lack of experience in government or law enforcement.

But he fell out of favour, with the president in particular, following failings by the service, which has about 30,000 staff and is in itself an important branch of Ukraine’s armed forces. Politico reported last month that Zelenskyy was looking to fire Bakanov, citing officials close to the president and a western official who had advised Kyiv on reform of the SBU.

Ukrainian authorities charged three senior officials from the SBU’s southern Kherson region with treason last month after Russian forces swept through the territory meeting little resistance.

Serhiy Kryvoruchko, head of Kherson’s SBU directorate, is alleged to have ordered his officers to evacuate the city against the president’s orders. Another top SBU officer in the region, Ihor Sadokhin, is alleged to have tipped off Russian forces about the location of mines and air defences.

Before the February invasion, Zelenskyy faced criticism from Ukrainian activists and western officials for not doing enough to clean up Ukraine’s law enforcement agencies.

Under Venediktova, Ukrainian prosecutors appear to have made little headway in clamping down on corruption.

Although the EU granted Ukraine accession candidate status last month, it stipulated that Kyiv would have to show a record of successful prosecutions and convictions in corruption cases for the country to move to the next stage.

The sackings are a further example of Zelenskyy tightening his grip on the levers of power during the war following the imposition of martial law and tight censorship of broadcast media.



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Virtuous Victorian Values getting a bad name = Rep. Victoria Spartz, who emigrated from Ukraine
Victoria Nuland and now Victoria Spartz. Warmongers.

At least we now know that the idea that if women ruled the world life would be peaceful bliss is not just false but horribly so.

Even more, women LIKE men to fight to the death. It's mammalian biology going back millions of years, with alpha male chimps and gorillas being our closest relatives. The top chimp gets the girls. The girls go for the top chimp. They LIKE to see the fight and go with the winner.

Men on the other hand, are in the end willing to fight, but they are aware that if the fighting starts, they are likely to be the losers as there's only 1 alpha male and a gang of his supporters such as Saddam's palace guard. The average bloke knows his chances at a peaceful life are better if they get along with the other blokes. The average bloke knows that cooperation works better than fighting to the death to be top dog in a dog eat dog and human eat dog world. That's why tribes have got bigger and bigger until we now have billion person countries with strong impetus to getting along on a global basis.

Cherchez la femme. Yulia Tymoshenko, Victoria Nuland, Victoria Spartz, Liz Truss, Ursula von den Kraut, Hillary = "We came, we saw, he died .... cackle cackle cackle...", Jacinda Ardern, Sanna Marin, Magdalena Anderrson, Samantha Powers, Mette Frederiksen, Karin Ollengren etc etc etc .... all political bosses warmongering flat out. They want to get Putin and conquer Russia. Show him that women rule. Justin Castreau, Herr Gruppenfuhrer Stoltenberg etc are not really men. They are wokies.*

Nature has designed women to reach puberty 3 years younger than men. You'll never see that discussed other than by me = engineer = who also noted that Godiva rode a horse, while others did not notice the horse. Those 3 years are a very big deal. Nature has given humans the longest developing infancy and pre puberty period so that the vast amount of brain development that's needed can be achieved. Once into adulthood, for males, the carnage begins. Males have died off at 4 x the rate of females, due to genocide, risk taking, war winning to get the women and territory and resources as the prize.

Women have now voted, around the world, for free stuff from governments. Big Brother has replaced fathers as providers, to a great extent, in the democratic world of single-mothers who mate with whoever they feel like, with the collective paying for their breeding choices. It's back to the jungle, where alpha male gets the girls. Tinder rulz apply. Top males get the girls. Most men are incels.

It seems that the Big Brother commie/freestuff democratic so-called "free world" is confronting the old-style alpha male world of China, Russia, Iran, Turkey, India, North Korea, and a lot more besides.

With nuclear bombs to resolve matters.

Will the men fold like a cheap suit, or will the Victorias get their comeuppance?

Will Virtuous Victorian Values prevail? Spoiler alert .... I say yes they will. Maybe with a MAD on the way.

We should look on Ukraine as the Armageddon zone in which the battle of the sexes is being played out.
Zelensky is acting manly at the moment, but is also a Klaus Schwab toy boy, like Justin et al. Hunter Biden's nihilistic drug-fueled hedonism is the value system being fought for by the "free world". I think I prefer Putin and Emperor Pooh Xi. I wouldn't go as far as Kim the Fatter or Saddam. A happy middling with harmonious men and women would be better.

The current absurd attempt [in USA anyway] to transgender and LBGTQWERTY the problem away is absurd. Blokes in the girls' changing sheds and competing against them in swimming, tennis, sprinting... is mad.

Mqurice

* My admirable mother many decades ago pointed out to me that one could tell when a profession was losing its status because women would be moving into the jobs. Sure enough, she was right. Teachers, tellers, doctors, lawyer etc were male occupations which filled with women. Even engineers are often women these days. Politicians are increasingly women. They think they are taking over the important stuff but they are not. Even before cackling Kamala or Cankles have broken the glass ceiling, the prize has gone. Politicians have lost status, almost to the point of being held in contempt. If Russia nuked Washington, I guess a lot of Americans would think that not necessarily a bad thing.

Men have moved on. See what the hordes of teenage males are doing = hint = it's in Cyberspace gaming. Don't be misled by the "gaming". Young males play is preparation for adulthood. They instinctively know where the action is. Last weekend, Armageddon was on in Tauranga armageddonexpo.com I collected grandson, friend, girlfriend [cosplay free entry] yesterday afterwards.

Young men used to run away to sea and sail the seven seas. Not now. They spent their lives on engines, cars and the industrial revolution, driving fast. They are hardly interested in getting a driving licence now.

postscript.... my great grandmother nzhistory.govt.nz [only partly true in that item] Lucie Laurent nee Arms and daughters Lottie and Louise Laurent [my grandmother] were instrumental in getting King Dick Richard Seddon New Zealand PM to bring in voting for women. NZ was first to do it. We're now ruled top to bottom by women, with the Master Race working with them as shown on the NZ aka Aotearoa-Zimbabwe coat of arms.

The End of History was not 30 years ago, or now [see Fukuyama]. The fun has just begun. Hopefully crazed women don't end the world in nuclear Armageddon before the next phase of Etherealistic Cyberspace.