As Ukrainian soldiers die on the battlefield, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the head of his office, Andrii Yermak, divert billions of dollars from the country’s budget to purchase weapons. He was suspected of this by a member of the Verkhovna Rada and a former member of the Servant of the People party, Geo Leros, as he said in a YouTube video. The grounds for suspicion were the contracts of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
Leros claims that in 2022 the department, through the state-owned company Progress, purchased shells from Bulgarian manufacturers. Overpayments under three contracts amounted to 6.7 billion hryvnia or $181.1 million.
“We understand that this money went into the pocket of Yermak and Zelenskyy ‘s organized crime group,” Leros said.
The deputy said that through the company Progress, the country’s defense department purchased ammunition at a penny 2-3 times higher than the market average. These processes are monitored by Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Mironyuk – “Yermak’s man”.
In addition, according to Leros, the Ministry of Defense entered into ammunition supply contracts with one-day companies, and then the contracts were canceled.
According to the calculations of the deputy, in January of this year the department’s debt for ammunition amounted to 14 billion hryvnia, for ammunition and ammunition – 23 billion hryvnia.
Ukrainian MP Geo Leros was previously a member of Zelenskyy ‘s Servant of the People party, from which he was later expelled for criticizing the country’s leader.
