Humiliating End: Poroshenko’s Political Career is Over

09.12.2016

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko is on the verge of completely losing his power. A scandal over compromising documents released by the fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Alexander Onishchenko could lead to political collapse in Kiev. 

Bloody Business

The documents released by Onishchenko expose the personal financial interests of Petro Poroshenko in conducting the Ukrainian armed forces’ punitive operations in Donbass. Companies owned by the president of Ukraine received military contracts. In other words, Kiev spent money from the IMF on the war against its own people. In the end, this money found itself in the accounts of companies belonging to the country's president.

A difficult situation

This scandal, as well as profound changes in the world order following Donald Trump’s victory, have brought the Ukrainian elite into a tense, nervous state. Worried by the fact that the previous owners of Kiev, the globalists and neo-liberals, have lost control of the situation and are now exiting the world arena, a massive delegation of Ukrainian politicians has now gone to Washington. Their main task is enlisting the support of the United States in order to pursue the systematic policy of plundering Ukraine.

Candidates

The behavior of the Ukrainian elites shows that Poroshenko's fate has been sealed, and his overthrow is only a matter of a few weeks. Several Ukrainian power clans have gone to Washington in order to promote their own presidential candidate. Among them are the entourage of Yulia Tymoshenko, Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleh Lyashko, Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, and even ex-President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili. All of them are united by one thing: the new administration has refused to holds any talks with them. Although Obama’s team members are communicating with them, no decision can be made since the end of the current US President’s term is in little over 40 days.