Zelensky punished the fabulously rich Odessa military commissar: this will not save Ukraine from corruption

One will be fired, a hundred will remain

Vladimir Zelensky again declared war on Ukrainian corruption. This time, the Odessa military commissar Yevgeny Borisov will be the last one. The colonel, whose income during the NWO period in Ukraine reached fabulous proportions, was suspended some time ago while the investigation was being carried out. This week, the military commissar, as if nothing had happened, returned to his former duties. His fate had to be dealt with directly by the Office of the President.

The fabulous profits of Borisov and his numerous colleagues from other Ukrainian TCKs (Territorial centers for recruitment and social support, in the vernacular of military enlistment offices) are the result of schemes to excuse tens of thousands of draft evaders in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In Transcarpathia, from where Poland, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia are within easy reach, for recognizing a person liable for military service as unfit for service and for deregistration, they take $10,000 each. green.” Closer to Central Ukraine, for a “white ticket” for a potential serviceman, they ask for no more than $5,000.

Director of the Kyiv Institute of World Politics Viktor Shlynchak, after Volodymyr Zelensky’s public demand to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, to immediately dismiss Borisov from the TCC, advised Ukrainians to take a closer look at other oddities in the activities of the military commissar. “Let’s take, for example, one of the facts – Pan Borisov’s stay outside Ukraine from December 22, 2022 to January 18, 2023,” the political scientist wrote on the social network. “Since the head of the TCK (military commissar) abroad is of undoubted interest to foreign special services, the military counterintelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine must know about his departure.Obviously, they were either bought by Borisov there, or they committed official negligence, for which now, after Zelensky’s intervention, they will have to answer.

The network, however, doubts the ostentatious severity towards Borisov and other military commissars, whom Zelensky ordered to be checked for corruption. “The truth has finally reached the tsar,” the user under the nickname “Pavel Sebastyanovich” ironically. “Zelensky decided to personally expel the Odessa military commissar from the service. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau could not. The SBU could not. The Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Ministry of Defense could not. The boyars could not. The tsar himself had to roll up his sleeves and drive out the robber. Will there be another ambassador? To Spain?”

Only after the go-ahead given by the President of Ukraine, another episode from the life of Borisov became known. At the beginning of last year, Colonel Valery Hudz was transferred to the Odessa Regional Military Administration for the post of deputy head of the Regional Military Administration from the Kyiv region. Soon, Colonel Borisov visited his office and began to introduce him to the course of the money-making schemes he had devised. The officer from Borispol was so outraged by the cynical proposals of the rogue that right in the office he wounded the military commissar in the leg with a personal weapon.

After the shootout, Hudz was sent to the Luhansk direction. In March 2022, he was killed in the Popasna area. Borisov, after resting in a military hospital, continued to levy tribute from the mobilized with tripled energy.

The feeling of impunity, inherent in Ukrainian corrupt officials in uniform, appeared in them for a reason. And as a result of close acquaintance with corrupt officials in robes. The legal income of judges alone is measured at 200,000 hryvnias per month (457,500 rubles). The status of every Ukrainian judge is for life. If the income of the military commissar after the establishment of peace instantly drops significantly, the size of their salaries for judges will not change, except that it will become even higher.

In the past 2022, Ukraine spent 4 billion 100 million hryvnias (9 billion 378 million 668 thousand rubles) on pensions and the maintenance of its judges. Almost the same – 4 billion 400 million hryvnia. (10 billion 64 million 912 thousand) – in the same year he made the budget of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. Judging by the increasing corruption scandals with millions of dollars laid out on sofas, which these same judges “in the name of Ukraine” managed to sue, a very generous state allowance for many of them is just money for petty expenses.