{"id":1266266,"date":"2025-07-22T13:53:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T10:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/president-zelensky-and-any-interference\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T08:53:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T05:53:39","slug":"president-zelensky-and-any-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/president-zelensky-and-any-interference\/","title":{"rendered":"Between Independence and Interference: Zelenskyy\u2019s Balancing Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaking at 20:32 on July 21, 2025, began with a familiar phrase \u2014 wishing the nation health \u2014 before delivering a message that signaled more than routine reassurance.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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“We are introducing a moratorium \u2014 a ban \u2014 on inspections of businesses and, in general, any interference by law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies, and various government agencies in business activities.”<\/p>\n

Someone, having read this good news, is probably already wiping away tears of joy.<\/p>\n

But Ukrainian judges have long explained to me: under no circumstances should one trust speeches, statements, or addresses by President Zelenskyy \u2014 let alone his interviews.<\/p>\n

And asking what President Zelenskyy meant<\/em> when he said this or that is, in their view, to completely dismantle the institution of the President of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I turned to the actual text of Presidential Decree No. 538\/2025:
“On the Decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine dated July 21, 2025, \u2018On the Introduction of Legal and Organizational Measures to Impose a Moratorium on Unfounded Inspections and Interference of State Bodies in Business Activities and Stimulating Economic Growth in Ukraine.\u2019”<\/p>\n

It says right there in the title: a moratorium on unfounded<\/strong> inspections, not on any<\/em> inspections or interference.<\/p>\n

And we know very well that the necessary \u201cgrounds\u201d will be found when and where needed.<\/p>\n

So President Zelenskyy, true to form, has exaggerated.<\/p>\n

This fake moratorium on inspections \u2014 with which the authorities are once again trying to fool us \u2014 is just a distraction.<\/p>\n

The real content lies in the first clause of the National Security and Defense Council\u2019s decision, approved by the decree:<\/p>\n

On additional mutually agreed-upon measures to seize assets of sanctioned persons.<\/p>\n

President Zelenskyy seems to enjoy imposing sanctions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But the pace of robbery does not satisfy him yet, so it needs to be improved.<\/p>\n

President Zelensky knows that there were many good things in the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

Repressions, for example. Dispossession.<\/p>\n

So he brings it back into our lives.<\/p>\n

And don\u2019t think that dispossession will not affect each of us.<\/p>\n

In Ukraine, they already thought so.<\/p>\n

Until the Holodomor.<\/p>\n

Also, follow “Pryamyi”<\/strong> on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Telegram<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaking at 20:32 on July 21, 2025, began with a familiar phrase \u2014 wishing the nation health \u2014 before delivering a message that signaled more than routine reassurance.\u00a0   “We are introducing a moratorium \u2014 a ban \u2014 on inspections of businesses and, in general, any interference by law enforcement agencies, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1264862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76894,76991],"class_list":["post-1266266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-politics","category-opinions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267666,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266266\/revisions\/1267666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1264862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}