“Ukrainian politicians and top officials live in multimillion -dollar estates that they cannot officially afford. In the midst of the war, Ukraine transfer billions of hryvnias to import companies, but does not receive it.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the UP, the cycle of materials that we mention our most interesting and resonant journalistic investigations continues. They took place under different presidents and warehouses of parliament, under different economic and security conditions, but all were important to society.
Cycle: “From the life of the Ukrainian elite” Sergey Leshchenko, 2007-2012.
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In 2007, the Ukrainian Truth began a series of articles about personal but important part of the life of Ukrainian politicians and top officials – about their homes.
And it turned out that these people could have polar political views, different property backgrounds and a declared level of wealth, but there is much in common in housing. They prefer the estates for a few million dollars, quench them with high fences, and very often cannot logically explain to the public the inconsistency of the official income of their home.
These are the times when there were no drones at the disposal of journalists to remove the estate from the height of a bird’s flight, so I had to make photos through the fence. Sometimes the risk of suffering from the hands of angry guards. Although sometimes lucky with photos of palaces taken from a helicopter.
The cycle about the estates of the Ukrainian elite of the UP has returned for several years.
Specialmaragers. As weapons importers brought out billions of hryvnias from the country in the midst of war Roman Romanyuk, Sonia Lukashova, 2023
The problem with the importers of weapons, which took prepayment from the Ministry of Defense for projectiles and military equipment, withdrew this money from the country, but did not supply anything – it became so large that the Ministry of Defense went to lawsuits on the most flashy cases and companies.
The UP found at least 30 such claims in the court register totaling UAH 8.9 billion. Most of these treaties were signed in the spring of 2022.
For example, in May 2022, “Daughter” “Ukrspecexport”-the firm “Progress” on a contract alone received from the state 1.3 billion hryvnias for the supply of 122 mm shots to the RSZV “Grad”. The firm did not fulfill this agreement, but later it again transferred the money in advance – by another contract. As a result, the state has tried to recover UAH 2.6 billion from the “progress”.
“Granica on the meat.” As Poland is increasing trade with Russia through Belarus Mikhail Tkach, 2024.
In February 2024, a few days before the anniversary of a full -scale invasion, Polish agrarians began protesting in the country, blocking roads and border crossing points with Ukraine. One of the key requirements of protesters was to introduce restrictions on imports of agricultural products from Ukraine.
It was at this time that the Ukrainian truth went to Poland to see the scale of turnover between it and Belarus, which was a transit country for Russian goods. Russian agricultural products are heading to Belarus, overloaded in special centers for trucks with Polish registration and goes to Europe. Only one of the checkpoints journalists saw with their own eyes dozens of cars that carried goods from Belarus.
During the shooting, Polish police detained journalist Mikhail Tkach for several hours with the operator and removed some of the material.
Following the publication of the investigation, the Polish Sejm approved the resolution on the introduction of sanctions on agricultural products from the Russian Federation and Belarus.
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