Scandal on Bankova Street: How They Lost Control

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Do you know the biggest mistake ZEofis is making right now? He’s throwing a tantrum. A more logical approach would be to remain outwardly calm, acknowledge the situation — yes, the “rats” were found, NABU did its job — and signal that the government is only growing stronger.

And they are hysterical. Their insults border on outright obscenities. They are shouting about Moscow’s hand in NABU, SAPO, the opposition, and everywhere else — so loudly that even the most skeptical observers might think: no, they never scream like this when “enemies are shaking power.” It is the noise of an unfaithful spouse caught in someone else’s bed, or a street thief caught in the act of stealing someone else’s wallet.

This is how those caught red-handed lament.

And it shows that, in reality, the authorities’ positions are extremely weak — so weak that they fear the inevitable drop in approval ratings triggered by the Mindich and Galushchenko scandal.

I am increasingly convinced that a government of National Unity, with broad opposition participation, will be formed — on Poroshenko’s terms. Because then the Greens will have no use for fat. And it will happen very soon.

Partly because they are hysterical right now, unable to handle a real hit.

When the threat is genuine, the Greens become surprisingly tolerant of the opposition — as they were on February 24, 2022.

For future journalists and public activists, this should serve as a clear symbol. Today you support “promising young faces,” and tomorrow you are a “slut from a famous publication” — according to the terminology of these same… faces. Let them draw their own conclusions.

It is worth recalling that after the “Midas” operation — which exposed large-scale corruption in Energoatom and sent shockwaves through government offices — a systematic campaign to discredit NABU and SAPO was launched on Ukrainian Telegram channels. Anti-corruption authorities hailed the operation as one of the most effective in 2025. Yet, alongside its successes, a wave of identical posts attacking investigators and prosecutors appeared.

Investigators do not name a specific “director”, but point to a range of possible customers: some Ukrainian political groups that are afraid of anti-corruption cases, Russian influence structures interested in undermining trust in Ukrainian institutions, as well as business networks that make money from “sinkholes” in Telegram.

On the eve of the meeting, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy imposed NSDC sanctions against the co-owner of Kvartal-95 Timur Mindich and businessman Oleksandr Zuckerman, who are linked to a corruption case in the energy sector.

However, the relevant decree shows that despite the previously promised large-scale sanctions, Zelenskyy limited himself to a three-year term, although at least ten years had previously been discussed. The document emphasizes that Mindich and Zuckerman are citizens of Israel – a detail that has long raised questions about the real criteria for the current government’s sanctions policy.

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