{"id":1396834,"date":"2026-05-24T14:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T11:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/bankova-street-cesspools-how-the-authorities-discredit-anti-corruption-work\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T08:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T05:30:19","slug":"bankova-street-cesspools-how-the-authorities-discredit-anti-corruption-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/bankova-street-cesspools-how-the-authorities-discredit-anti-corruption-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Bankova\u2019s Dirty War: How Power Brokers Are Smearing Ukraine\u2019s Anti-Corruption Fighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Source: Author&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1208290947976429\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zelensky&#8217;s office has been waging a campaign to discredit me for my anti-corruption work for the past year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. The young men who are the owners of the TG channels booked by the SBU at the request of the Office, in addition to praising Zelenskyy, are trying to destroy the reputation of anti-corruption activists and journalists.<\/p>\n<p>2. They also earn quite a bit from their TG channels\u2014millions of hryvnias per month. And reservations.<\/p>\n<p>3. Their names are Oleg Harutyunyan, Bohdan Tymoshchuk, Andriy Sakharov, and a dozen other owners of all these Insiders and Ukraine Online.<\/p>\n<p>4. The largest human rights organization in Ukraine, ZMINA, wrote in its report about the pressure on me through cyberbullying, intimidation, and an informational discrediting campaign.<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-slandered-battalion\/\">The Battalion They Tried to Destroy with Lies<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p>5. This report was seen by international partners, who will point this out to Ukraine in their annual report.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky&#8217;s office forgets that by discrediting anti-corruption whistleblowers and journalists, it is discrediting itself before the West, first and foremost.<\/p>\n<p>I humbly thank human rights activists for noticing us, supporting us, and being our voice of defense before the entire civilized world.<\/p>\n<p>We are not afraid of pressure and will continue to speak the truth and fight for fair rules of the game in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Also, follow <strong>\u201cPryamyi\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 Materials published in the \u201cOPINIONS\u201d section reflect the opinion of the author of the publication, who bears full responsibility for the accuracy of the information.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 The editorial staff of prm.ua may not share the opinions expressed in the author&#8217;s material.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>\u2022 The owner of the webpage in the \u201cOPINIONS\u201d section is the author of the publication.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Author&#8217;s Facebook page Zelensky&#8217;s office has been waging a campaign to discredit me for my anti-corruption work for the past year. 1. The young men who are the owners of the TG channels booked by the SBU at the request of the Office, in addition to praising Zelenskyy, are trying to destroy the reputation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1313522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76893],"class_list":["post-1396834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396834","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397005,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396834\/revisions\/1397005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1313522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}