US media claimed that Putin had ordered the "removal" of Zelenskiy. Palace response: This is complete nonsense

According to a report from Tass News Agency in Moscow on December 16, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Peskov categorically denied an article in the "Wall Street Journal" that Putin ordered Chechen leader Kadyrov to "get rid of" the Ukrainian President. Zelensky’s statement.

Peskov’s file picture

Peskov told TASS: “This is complete nonsense.”

An article published in the "Wall Street Journal" on the 16th quoted information from the Ukrainian intelligence service as saying that Putin had ordered Chechen leaders to occupy the government buildings in Kiev and remove the Ukrainian president after the special military operation began.

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After Ukraine confiscated the property of former President Yanukovych, Zelensky’s sea-view house was gone

Due to the need for weapons for the continued war , due to the destruction of power facilities and being plunged into darkness from time to time due to ice and snow, Ukraine urgently needs more financial assistance. Zelensky proposed that Western aid to Ukraine be about US$50 per person per month, but the cost for half a year would be as high as US$12 billion.

Zelensky’s data map

And this is just one of the aid projects. What worries Ukraine is that many Western countries have waned in their willingness to continue aiding Ukraine. , this may be a collapse failure for Ukraine, but where will the money come from?

The Kiev government decided to confiscate it.

Confiscating all the assets of the former president

In August, Zelensky ordered the launch of a "large-scale privatization" plan to privatize more than 420 Ukrainian state-owned enterprises change. But there is the case of Motorsic, which owes 4.5 billion in compensation to China, and coupled with Russia's offensive, the privatization failed to meet Zelensky's expectations.

But now that Ukraine’s well-known agricultural exports have been significantly reduced, and industrial areas have been occupied, the top priority for the damaged energy system is to repair it quickly, otherwise Ukrainians will continue to flee, which will lead to capital outflows.

This time, Ukraine’s Supreme Anti-Corruption Court announced the confiscation of all the property of former President Yanukovych, including Yanukovych’s three residences, garages, and “Ketch” brand luxury goods. Yacht, 31 million Ukrainian hryvnias in cash, 85,000 US dollars in deposits, a recreation and wellness center in the Kiev region, a hotel and restaurant complex in Sukhoruchye, more than 500 pieces of art with an estimated value of 18.7 million euros Collection items.

Zelensky knows that it is no longer possible to impress Western politicians with speeches, but it is feasible to exchange these real things for Western aid.

Furthermore, Yanukovych, who was born in Donetsk, belongs to the pro-Russian faction. For Zelensky, confiscating his assets can boost Ukraine's morale and cohesion.

Confiscating the assets of the Ukrainian president

Previously, Ukraine has just confiscated the property of former President Yanukovych, and Zelensky’s sea-view house in Crimea has also been lost.

The leader of the "Crimean Republic" Aksyonov announced that Ukrainian President Zelensky's sea-view apartment in Crimea will be "state-owned" .

This apartment next to the seaside was worth US$800,000 when it was purchased in 2013. When Zelenskiy repeatedly shouted about Russia, he mentioned that he would look at the sea after regaining Crimea. I'm talking about this ocean view room.

Due to the special relationship between Russia and Ukraine, both sides have some assets on each other’s borders. At the beginning of the conflict, Zelensky signed a decree on the forced confiscation of the properties of Russia and its residents in Ukraine, including Confiscating the property of "Russian propagandists". As of August this year, Ukraine has seized Russian and Belarusian assets totaling more than $1 billion.

The Kiev government sanctioned Yanukovych and his cronies, and Crimea passed a bill to confiscate the assets of countries and their citizens in the region that are unfriendly to Russia. The operation of the front and rear feet is somewhat of a slap in the face.

In the Crimean Peninsula, many Ukrainian officials, including Zelensky, and Ukrainian oligarchs related to the Ukrainian government own property here, so the Crimean authorities do not come here. Mutual confiscation was also carried out in the past.

Aksyonov said, “In principle, we will take it from him and give it to others.”

If we say that former Ukrainian President Yanukovych’s The property belongs to a lot of corruption, so where did the current president and former actor Zelensky accumulate this wealth from a seaside apartment worth 800,000 US dollars? The answer is obvious, it is only the Ukrainian people who suffer.