>>22681954

Some of the main reasons Zelensky negated the treaty with Russia in Jan. 2022 and willingly jumped into the war, and why Z won’t pay US back, or anyone else

1 Jul, 202415:24

Ukraine could declare default – Economist

Kiev so far has failed to restructure its debt, the outlet has said

Kiev could default on its enormous debts as early as next month if it fails to negotiate a restructuring deal with its creditors, The Economist reported on Sunday.

In February 2022, bondholders – including US financial giants BlackRock and Pimco, as well as French asset manager Amundi—granted Ukraine a two-year debt freeze in view of its conflict with Russia. Butthat agreement expires in August, and Kiev's creditors are anxious for it to begin paying interest on its debt again.

According to the outlet, the arrangement is worth 15% of Ukraine’s annual GDP, meaning that if payments had been required, they would have been Kiev’s second-biggest category of expenditure after defense.

The conflict with Russia has dealt a heavy blow to the Ukrainian economy, which has shrunk by a quarter since the outbreak of hostilities, the outlet said.Kiev’s debt-to-GDP ratio will approach 94% by the end of the year,despite “impressive” Western backing, although this largely comes in the form of “artillery, tanks and earmarked funds, rather than cash,” the article noted.

“Ukraine has a month to avoid default,”…

https://www.rt.com/business/600269-ukraine-debt-restructuring-default/

3 Sep, 202421:23

Rothschild helped Ukraine clinch debt restructuring – Reuters

Kiev’s financial adviser arranged face-to-face meetings with bondholders in July=2022after initial talks failed, according to a report

(Did Zelensky go to war with Russia for revenge of the Rothchilds and “the bankers”?)

Ukraine reached its recent agreement with bondholders on a debt restructuring as a result of efforts by Rothschild & Co, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing sources involved in the talks. Kiev appointed Rothschild as an advisor to its Finance Ministry in 2017.

Kiev announced last week that it had reached an agreement with a group of foreign investors to restructure its $20 billion debt. Bondholders – including US financial giants BlackRock and Pimco, as well as French asset manager Amundi –granted Ukraine a two-year debt freeze in February 2022 when the conflictwith Russia broke out.

The bondholders’ committee, which represents the holders of 25% of the bonds, has agreed to accept losses of 37%, or $8.7 billion, on the nominal value of their debt.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reportedly confirmed that the deal was compatible with the parameters of its $122 billion aid package to Kiev. Both the IMF and the country’s creditors, which include the US and the Paris Club, have signed off on it, according to a statement with the terms of the accord published on the London Stock Exchange.

The restructuring of the massive debt will help Kiev save $11.4 billion over the next three years.This is crucial for both its war effort and its IMF program, Reuters wrote,describing the debt restructuring as one of the fastest and largest in history, eclipsed in scale only by those undertaken by Argentina and Greece.

The report, however, highlighted that initial negotiations between the Ukrainian government and its lenders that started in June 2022 did not go to plan. Talks failed after a couple of weeks as the core committee of bondholders complained that the write-down Ukraine was demanding was “significantly in excess” of the 20% expected and risked doing “substantial damage” to relations.

With less than two months until the August 2022 payment moratorium expired, Rothschild reportedly arranged face-to-face meetings for the sides at the firm’s offices in Paris. Thesereportedly involved representatives of some of the world’s top asset management firms and their legal and financial advisers, Kiev’s debt chief Yury Butsa, Ukraine’s long-term legal advisers White & Case and the Rothschild team.

According to Reuters, bondholders demanded that Ukraine restart coupon payments immediately, offer a path to a higher principal recovery and, importantly, “keep it simple.” IMF staff reportedly worked “at breakneck speed” to crunch the numbers.

Kiev offered an alternative in the form of a simpler GDP-linked bond, with creditors also being offered the instant coupon payments that they had wanted, starting at a rate of 1.75% and eventually rising to 7.75%.

The final result from the bondholder vote was more than 97% support, Reuters said.

https://www.rt.com/business/603470-ukraine-rothschild-debt-restructuring/

>>22682078

And here you have why Zelensky didn’t and won’t sign any deal with US and Trump, Ukraine doesn’t own the land. And PDJT knows it! So the minerals deal was to expose what Zelenskyy and others already did.

1 Jun, 2024 13:56

Ukraine won’t exist in 50 years – Tucker Carlson

The country will be sold to foreign investors and its population replaced through immigration, the former Fox News host has claimed (it already has been)

The US has “betrayed” Ukraine and will destroy the country by selling off its land and “flooding” it with third-world immigrants, American journalist Tucker Carlson has predicted in an interview with former President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Jr.

In a video interview published on Friday, Carlson and Trump Jr. both agreed that US President Joe Biden has brought the world to the brink of World War III, and that the US is essentially “at war with Russia.”

“No-one’s articulated what victory in Ukraine looks like,” Trump Jr. said. “I don’t know what it means. Is it just like perpetual death of Ukrainians and Russiansuntil they’re all wiped out and Blackrock comes in there and takes over all the farmland?That’s what it feels like to me.”

Blackrockis the world’s biggest investment company, and controls an estimated $10 trillion in assets.The firm is one of Ukraine’s largest foreign bondholders, and in 2022 signeda memorandum of understanding with Kiev stating that it would manage Ukraine’s post-conflict reconstruction.

Several BlackRock alumni serve in the Biden administration, including Brian Deese, the head of the National Economic Council. (Oh that’s where Joe and family are getting money in retirement)

After Ukrainian leader VladimirZelensky signed a controversial package of land reforms into law in 2020, foreign investment firms like NCH Capital, BNP, and the Vanguard Group now control around 28% of Ukraine’s arable land, according to research by the Oakland Institute, an American think tank.

Zelensky’s reforms were backed by the International Monetary Fund and US Agency for International Development.

“They’re already selling off lands in Ukraine to foreign investors=, and they will flood Ukraine with third-world immigrants and Ukraine will not exist in 50 years,” Carlson stated. “There’ll be no Ukrainian nation. We betrayed them like no other country ever.”

Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly promised that he would end the Ukraine conflict “in 24 hours” if re-elected this November, telling a Libertarian Party conference last weekend that he intends to “quit spending hundreds of billions of dollars to fight other people’s wars.”

Trump has never fully elaborated on how he would do this, save for forcing Zelensky to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but recent reports by Bloomberg and the Washington Post suggest that he would leverage the US’ massive military assistance to Kiev to pressure Zelensky into accepting the loss of some of Ukraine’s pre-conflict territory.

https://www.rt.com/news/598633-tucker-trump-ukraine-betrayed/

>>22682188

It’s obvious at this point that when Joe said it wouldn’t be bad if Russia just invaded small sections of Ukraine before the war.

Joe gave an open invitation to make sure Russia would start the war, because him and his staff planned on destroying Ukraine to steal and sell the whole country to Blackrockand others, because that was the Bidan Family retirement accounts for generations.

And the reason the Bidan Admin, the US military and other agencies let Zelensky and oligarchs launder the money sent to them, into their own accounts. And why the military knowingly allowed Ukraine selling off the arms to other terrorists and countries, and never account for it.

The U.S. gov sent money without any request to track or follow it. Remember MTG kept on demanding that we have to track it and find out what it was used for some Congress and most Senate refused to put that requirement in. (So a lot more enjoyed in the steal of U.S. money with Joe)

This war was not ideological for Ukraine, it was two birds in one, try to destroy or humiliate Russia and fund the corrupt for their entire lifetimes in the U.S. and oligarchs .

>>22682286

I suspect the reason why Trump invited all these companies to Mar A Lago was to let them know he knew everything, its not to give them praise, it was to give them the mandates of change that will happen in America. Trump knows O’Keefe very well he said so publicly.

22 Jun, 2023 18:19

Ukraine conflict ‘f***ing good for business’ – BlackRock recruiter

An employee of the asset management giant was filmed running from Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe

BlackRock wants the conflict in Ukraine to continue as long as possible because it is “good for business,”a recruiter for the asset management giant told an undercover reporter with Project Veritas successor, O’Keefe Media Group, in a video published on Monday.

“War is really f***ing good for business,” Serge Varlay, whose since-deleted LinkedIn profile described him as a technology recruiter at BlackRock, told the reporter. He outlined a scenario in which an investor could profit off a surge in wheat prices triggered by the bombing of Ukrainian wheat silos, explaining “volatility creates opportunity to make profit” before editorializing, “It’s exciting when s*** goes wrong, right?”

“We don’t want the conflict to end, as a country,”Varlay continued, noting, “the longer this goes on, the weaker Russia is.”

Varlay also boasted about his employer’s control of the political system.“It’s not who the president is, it’s who’s controlling the wallet of the president,” he declared, clarifying that it was “the hedge funds, BlackRock, the banks” who “run the world.”

“All these financial institutions, they buy politicians. You can take this big fton of money and then you can start to buy people,” he said, explaining that senators were “fing cheap, you got 10 grand you can buy a senator.” The US government also needs BlackRock to run its financial simulations, he said.

Admitting BlackRock “[does] not want to be on the radar,” Varlay suggested that “It’s easier to do things when people aren’t thinking about it.”He appeared briefly suspicious of the reporter's motives: “you're like an undercover reporter,” he said, arguing “normal people” were uninterested in her lines of questioning – but continued to boast about his role in “decid[ing] people's fates.”

After he was confronted in a New York cafe by Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe himself, Varley abruptly headed for the nearest police station. He can be seen in a video motioning for O’Keefe to follow him in. Following the meeting, Varlay deleted his LinkedIn profile, which is still viewable in search engine results for his name.

With over $10 trillion in assets under management, BlackRockcontrols sizable shares of most large American corporations and pension funds,including Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Nvidia, Alphabet, Pfizer, Tesla, Merck, Visa, and Mastercard. The company was tapped to assist the US government in the 2008 financial crisis and the Covid-19 response,making it the only private corporation aside from the Federal Reserve itself to exert direct control on the levers of the US financial systemand raising questions about insider trading and other conflicts of interest. Several BlackRock alumni serve in the Biden administration, including Brian Deese, the head of the National Economic Council.

https://www.rt.com/news/578481-blackrock-controls-politicians-war-okeefe/

>>22682188

17 May, 202308:04

West fueling Ukrainian financial woes – Moscow

Debt has already surpassed 89% of GDP and will continue to rise, Russia’s envoy to the UN warns

Western financial measures are leading Kiev into a sovereign debt crisis, with the burden expected to exceed Ukraine’s GDP by the end of the year, the Russian ambassador to the UN has warned. (This ambassador was at the first U.S. Russia meeting and will be leader of all going forward. So Rubio, etc was told the whole plan of the west and who were involved, which means Trump asking Z to sign the minerals agreement was a trap for confirmation. IMO)

“We will hear a lot today about the solidarity of the Western community with Ukraine, the readiness to support it ‘as long as it takes.’ However, it is necessary to understand that this support is taking Ukraine to the brink,” Vassily Nebenzia told the UN Security Council on Monday. “Its foreign debt surged to a record $132 billion, or 89% of GDP in 2022. It’s estimated that by the end of this year it will exceed 100%.”

The Russian envoy added that the “enormous funds allocated to Ukraine by the IMF, the EU, and the US are driving that country into a debt pit,” cautioning that “ordinary Ukrainians will have to repay the debts.”

Commenting on Kiev’s agreement with US financial companyBlackRock to launch the Ukraine Development Fund, Nebenzia noted that the American firm will be in charge of managing the finances.

“What essentially is happening under theguise of attracting private investmentfor large-scale projects in key areas of the economy,is a transfer of state sovereignty to external corporate management of the world’s largest investment fundheadquartered in New York,”the diplomat stated.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has pushed Western leaders to provide more and more cash to sustain the economy and military. He previously told the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund that the country would need $55 billion in 2023 to cover the estimated budget deficit and rebuild critical infrastructure amid the conflict with Russia.

Ukraine has already deferred payments until 2024 on more than $20 billion of debt held by international investors. It is set for foreign debt restructuring next year, with G7 creditors claiming they would only extend their grace period for Ukrainian debt if private creditors agree. The nation’s budgetary shortfall is estimated to surpass $43 billion in 2023 alone.

https://www.rt.com/business/576387-ukraine-western-loans-debt/

>>22682496

More proof the war was startedto make major corporations and oligarchs rich. It was never about Russia.

24 Jan, 202316:56

Arming Ukraine a 'big business' opportunity – Zelensky

The Ukrainian leader touted ties to Blackrock, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan in another weapons plea

Kiev is already working with some giants of the finance and military industry,offering “big business” opportunities to any American company interested in working there, President Vladimir Zelensky has boasted in a video message to an association of US enterprises.

Addressing the National Association of State Chambers (NASC) meeting in Boca Raton, Florida on Monday, Zelensky argued that “American business can become the locomotive that will once again push forward global economic growth.”

“We have already managed to attract attention and have cooperation with such giants of international financial and investment world as Blackrock, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs,”Zelensky said. “Such American brands as Starlink or Westinghouse have already become a part of our Ukrainian Way.”

According to Zelensky, “everyone can become a big business by working with Ukraine, in all sectors: from weapons and defense to construction, from communication to agriculture, from transport to IT, from banks to medicine.”

He also lavished praise on the weapons the US has showered upon Kiev.

“Your brilliant defense systems, such as HIMARS or Bradleys, are already uniting our history of freedom with your enterprises. We are waiting for Patriots. We are looking closely at Abrams. Thousands of such examples are possible,” Zelensky said in the video.

By the Pentagon’s own estimates, the US has sent over $20 billion worth of weapons, ammunition and supplies to Ukraine in 2022. However, most of that came out of the US military stockpiles. The Department of Defense did award contracts worth hundreds of millions to Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and other manufacturers to replenish some of the depleted supplies.

Russia has repeatedly warned the West that continued deliveries of weapons to Ukraine only prolonged the conflict and risked a direct confrontation between Moscow and NATO.

The Ukrainian president= revealed in December that his governmenthad hired Blackrock– a major US asset management company –to “advise” Kiev on how to use reconstruction funds provided by Western governments.

He has estimated the cost of rebuilding Ukraine from the ongoing conflict would be atleast $1 trillion.(It was always the plan for Western countries to pay for the reconstruction)

https://www.rt.com/russia/570422-zelensky-ukraine-america-business/

>>22682582

4 Jan, 2023

Ukraine estimates cost of reconstruction

The figures range from $700 billion to $1 trillion, as Kiev covets frozen Russian assets

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said on Tuesday that “more than $700 billion” will be needed to repair the damage due to the conflict, double the estimate given by Kiev in June. President Vladimir Zelensky had put the figure at $1 trillion at the end of December.

“Together with the World Bank, we plan to conduct another verification of Ukraine's needs for a quick recovery,” Shmygal told the cabinet meeting in Kiev, according to the UNIAN news agency. “Let me remind you that we had such an estimate at the beginning of June. Then the figure was $350 billion in damage. Given the latest attacks on our infrastructure, today this amount reaches more than $700 billion.”

Meanwhile, he said that Kiev intends to use the 17 billion hryvnia ($426.6 million) already confiscated from Russian banks on rebuilding residences destroyed in the fighting. The money is “already in the special account,” Shmygal told the government.

This is a lower amount than Zelensky quoted in a statement at the beginning of August, when he said that Kiev had seized “28 billion hryvnias,” or approximately $765 million. Shmygal’s damage assessment was also around $300 billion under Zelensky’s trillion-dollar claim – which was made on the same day (December 30) that the EU gave its own estimate of €600 billion ($633 billion).

The competing claims come amid media reports alleging the growing willingness of some EU politicians to hand the frozen Russian assets to Kiev. The US and its G7 allies had seized some €300 billion ($311 billion) in reserves belonging to the Russian central bank, as well as billions in assets owned by blacklisted Russian businessmen.

Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that the German government was divided on the issue, but would be willing to support the confiscation on condition that legal issues were resolved and that other Western countries did the same.

Last month, the Ukrainian leader revealed that he had hired US asset management company BlackRock to “advise the Ukrainian government on how to structure the country’s reconstruction funds.”

Zelensky has also proposed a ten-point “peace plan” under which Russia would pay Ukraine reparations for decades and submit to a war crimes tribunal. Moscow has dismissed it as “nonsense.”

https://www.rt.com/russia/569357-ukraine-reconstruction-cost-estimates/

No wonder the EU wants the war to go on for another year. They expect the U.S. to do the workThe whole plan was a scam by Joe and the EU, to suck the US dry. Guaranteed Lindsey Graham was involved. He’s the one that touted the minerals to Trump.

1 Mar, 2025 13:19

EU wants another year of war – Rubio

The US is determined to seize even the slightest opportunity to end the Ukraine conflict, the secretary of state has said

https://www.rt.com/news/613540-eu-wants-another-year-war-ukraine/

1 Mar, 2025 09:50

Zelensky should apologize for ‘fiasco’ with Trump – Rubio

Friday’s talks in the Oval Office descended into a verbal spat during which the US president accused the Ukrainian leader of ungratefulness

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky “should apologize” for turning his meeting with US President Donald Trump into a “fiasco,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said. In an interview with CNN on Friday, Rubio slammed Zelensky for “wasting” everyone’s time with his attitude andquestioned his true intentions regarding the conflict with Russia.

Zelensky, Trump, and Vice President J.D. Vance met earlier on Friday in the White House Oval Office for what was expected to be the formal signing of a minerals agreement between Washington and Kiev. However, the meeting descended into a verbal spat after Trump told Zelensky that he would have to negotiate peace with Russia. Zelensky argued that Russian President Vladimir Putin cannot be trusted and insisted that the US should continue supporting his country, prompting Trump to accuse him of ungratefulness and an unwillingness to negotiate an end to the conflict.

“[Zelensky] should apologize for wasting our time for a meeting that was going to end the way it did… for turning this thing into the fiasco for him that it became,” Rubio said, commenting on the meeting.

“There was no need for him to go in there and become antagonistic,” he added, criticizing the Ukrainian leader for the talks “going off the rails.” Rubio alsoaccused Zelensky of sticking to his animosity towards Putininstead of focusing on the only viable path towards peace, which he said was getting Russia to the negotiation table.

“Attacking Putin, calling him names… and maximalist demands about Russia having to pay for the reconstruction – when you start talking about that aggressively, you’re not going to get people to the table,” he stated, noting thatZelensky’s attitude could be viewed as “active open undermining” of efforts to bring about the end of the conflict.

Following the meeting, Fox News journalist Jacqui Heinrich wrote on X that theUkrainian delegation was “begging” for a reset, but was asked to leave the White House grounds and only return when Zelensky was “ready for peace.”

In an interview on Fox News shortly after the meeting, Zelensky admitted it did not go well, but signaled he did not plan to apologize to the US leader. He claimed he thought “we have to be very open and very honest” in bilateral interaction, blamed some of the statements he made on being lost in translation, but ultimately said he was “unsure” that he did something “bad” to offend Trump.

https://www.rt.com/news/613531-zelensky-should-apologize-rubio/

1 Mar, 2025 20:29

Ukrainian attack on TurkStream threatens Hungary’s sovereignty – FM

Peter Szijjarto has condemned the latest attempted drone strike on the pipeline that delivers Russian gas to European countries

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has condemned a recent drone attack on a compressor station of the TurkStream gas pipeline, labeling it anassault on his nation’s sovereigntydue to the conduit’s critical role in its energy security.

Szijjarto’s comments came on Saturday after the Russian military reported thwarting a Ukrainian drone attack on the Russkaya compressor station on Friday night.This station is a critical facility for the TurkStream, also known as Turkish Stream, pipeline in Russia’s Krasnodar Region, serving as the point of exit on Russian soil for gas deliveries. The Defense Ministry stated that three drones were neutralized by air defense systems, preventing any damage to the station’s operations.

“The Turkish Stream pipeline is the guarantee of Hungary’s natural gas supply security; therefore, any potential disruption would seriously jeopardize our energy security,” Szijjarto wrote on Facebook. “Energy security is a matter of sovereignty, and therefore this type of attack should be considered an attack on sovereignty.”

The pipeline, which has been operational since January 2020, delivers Russian natural gas to Turkish customers andseveral European countries, including Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Greece.

The Hungarian minister also called on the European Commission to clarify its stance on the matter, reminding it of its recent assurance that Ukraine would not target EU-bound infrastructure.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov informed Szijjarto about the attempted attack during a phone conversation initiated by Hungary, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. He explained the incident and its implications for the pipeline’s security.

The incident is not the first involving the facility. Back in January, Ukrainian forces attempted to attack it with nine kamikaze drones, according to the Russian military. All of the UAVs were intercepted, but debris from the explosions caused minor damage to the station.

Commenting on the incident at the time, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskovaccused Ukraine of engaging in acts of “energy terrorism.”

https://www.rt.com/news/613559-ukrainian-attack-turkstream-threatens-hungary/

(The EU has always use Ukraine as terrorists to try to get in line countries that refuse to submit to their unlimited foreigners flooding in.)

1 Mar, 2025 17:58

White House sees Zelensky as ‘petulant child’ – NBC source

The Ukrainian leader’s behavior at Friday’s meeting with Trump was reportedly perceived as “needlessly provocative”

The White House was taken aback by Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s behavior during his meeting with US President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance in the Oval Office on Friday, NBC News has reported, citing ananonymous source.(why do they need a secret source when the whole world saw it?)

After several weeks of negotiations and deliberations, Zelensky was expected to finalize an agreement granting the US rights to his country’s natural resources. However, the meeting seemed to have gone off script and devolved into a heated exchange. The Ukrainian leader’s stay at the White House was cut short, while the accord was left unsigned.

In an article on Saturday, NBC News, citing unnamed sources, reportedthat “there was no predetermined strategy” for an outright confrontation. However, Vance felt compelled to counter Zelensky’s “needlessly provocative”attitude. Sources saidno one had “expected [Zelensky] to walk in there and act like such a petulant child,” characterizing the Ukrainian leader’s demeanor as “entitled.”

The conversation grew increasingly heated as Trump told Zelensky he had to negotiate peace with Russia, to which the Ukrainian leader responded by digging in his heels and insisting that the US should continue supporting his country.

The US head of state accused his visitor of ungratefulness, arguing that Kiev does not “have the cards,” and would have lost to Russia if not for the generous US assistance provided. Vance soon joined the fiery exchange, also accusing Zelensky of failing to show enough respect to the US.

In a post on X later on Friday, Fox News journalist Jacqui Heinrich claimed that “Trump kicked out Zelenskyy – he did not walk off on his own.”

She further quoted an unnamed member of the White House staff as claiming that theUkrainian delegation was “begging to resetbut [Secretary of State Marco] Rubio and [National Security Advisor Mike] Waltzinformed them Zelenskyy needs to leave [the] White House grounds.”(and never let him back please)

Commenting on the altercation on his Truth Social platform, Trump observed that the Ukrainian leader had demonstrated that he “is not ready for peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations.”

In an interview with CNN on Friday, Secretary of State Rubio advised Zelensky to apologize “for wasting our time.. [and] turning this thing into the fiasco for him that it became.”

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian leader himself told Fox News that he did not feel he owed Trump and Vance an apology, explaining that he was “not sure we did anything bad.” (Showing Z is a dictator and demands others bow to his “dog like” fighting. And the EU tolerates it.)

That’s got to be so humiliating for the delegation.

https://www.rt.com/news/613550-nbc-zelensky-petulant-child-trump-spat/