War-hungry Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thinks former President Donald Trump’s peace plan for the Ukraine-Russia war is “very dangerous.”
The former president has previously said he would, if reelected president of the United States, end the war in just 24 hours by negotiating a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia.
Speaking with the U.K.’s Channel 4 News in an interview that aired Friday, Zelenskyy cried foul.
Listen:
⚡️ Zelenskyy: Donald Trump, I invite you to Ukraine, to Kyiv. So if you can stop the war in 24 hours, I think that will be enough to come any day when I’m here.
@Channel4News pic.twitter.com/Crm3XT3QME
— UNITED24 media (@United24media) January 19, 2024
“We know that Donald Trump has said when I’m president, this war is over in 24 hours. Does that kind of talk and the idea of him getting back in the White House — does that frighten you?” the interviewer asked him.
“When he himself says that I will end the war in 24 hours, it seems to me that, how do I put this, very dangerous, what he says is,” Zelenskyy replied. “I will explain.”
“[Trump] is going to make decisions on his own, without … I’m not even talking about Russia, but without both sides, without us. If he says this publicly, that’s a little scary. I’ve seen a lot, a lot of victims, but that’s really making me a bit stressed,” he added.
“Because even if his idea [for ending the war] – that no one has heard yet – doesn’t work for us, for our people, he will do anything to implement his idea anyway. And this worries me a little,” he continued.
The Ukrainian president’s words triggered a whirlwind of backlash, with critics accusing him of being a war-hungry pig who’d rather let more Ukrainians die than negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Look:
Yeah… I hate peace too
— Critical Thinking Anarchist (@tazjam) January 21, 2024
Only corrupt politicians fear Trump.
— 1776 (@TheWakeninq) January 20, 2024
Zelensky is a corrupt, self-serving actor
— Tjb2112 (@tbausch2112) January 20, 2024
There are those who would say Zelinskyy’s rhetoric is ‘very dangerous “.
— D Livingstone (@livingstone_d) January 21, 2024
Zelensky says it’s dangerous because Trump will put a stop to the war and the money laundering that goes along with it .
— The Outsider (@RickHol7) January 21, 2024
Ukraine politicians and foreign mercenaries will sooner lose their biggest sources of revenues. Trump cannot be bamboozled.
— Cyrus Maina (@Cymaina) January 20, 2024
In other words Zelensky knows Trump won’t send any more money to Ukraine to line corrupt pockets and he’s having a temper tantrum.
— Darcy Hovden (@DarcyHovden) January 21, 2024
Notice how many of the critics also accused Zelenskyy of committing money laundering. They may have had a point.
The Guardian, a far-left outlet, previously reported in 2021 that, despite having “railed against politicians … who did their assets offshore,” Zelenskyy was doing the exact same thing.
The evidence lay in the Pandora papers, which were leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and shared with The Guardian.
“The leaked documents suggest he had – or has – a previously undisclosed stake in an offshore company, which he appears to have secretly transferred to a friend weeks before winning the presidential vote,” the paper reported.
“The files reveal Zelenskiy participated in a sprawling network of offshore companies, co-owned with his longtime friends and TV business partners. They include Serhiy Shefir, who produced Zelensky’s hit shows, and Shefir’s older brother, Borys, who wrote the scripts. Another member of the consortium is Ivan Bakanov, a childhood friend. Bakanov was general director of Zelenskiy’s production studio, Kvartal 95,” the reporting continued.
This reporting certainly points to him being a hypocrite, if not also immensely corrupt.
Everyone forgets that prior to the war Zelenskyy was named in the Pandora papers. He has hundreds of millions of dollars in offshore accounts and that’s only the stuff discovered. He’s as corrupt as they come and he is without question profiting from the destruction of Ukraine
— شبير (@abolishnato) September 8, 2023
Meanwhile, last September Reuters reported about all the corruption surrounding the Ukrainian president’s top aides.
“In his years as the chief executive of one of Ukraine’s biggest construction firms, Oleh Maiboroda kept rolls of dollar bills in a safe behind his desk,” the report reads.
“The money, Maiboroda told Reuters, was intended to bribe public officials to approve building projects. The task of handing over the cash, he said, was entrusted to a lawyer named Oleh Tatarov, now a senior adviser to Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy,” it continues.
The allegations didn’t surprise critics:
Shocker! NOT
— W.H.T. Walker (@WHTWalkerOld) September 22, 2023
I don’t like or trust Zelenskyy. He seems shifty to me.
— Debbie Donnell (@DmdonnellDebbie) September 22, 2023
Of course they are corrupt. The flow of money with zero accountability has created a money laundering depot.
— Ils Form (@ils_form) September 22, 2023
Despite all these accusations, U.S. President Joe Biden continues to send more and more money to Ukraine …
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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