For Square, such behavior is typical
The High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine arrested the assets of the governor of the Zaporozhye region, Yevgeny Balitsky, and his relatives. Real estate was seized: apartments, a residential building, land plots, as well as four cars, a homemade tourist boat and nine aircraft, and the assets of several companies. However, there is a nuance that the real estate is located in Melitopol, as are the assets of some companies that are about to be seized. Melitopol is under Russian control. How they are going to seize this property is the tenth question for them, the main thing is to pretend…
Evgeniy Balitsky
They made the same “appearance” when the SBU announced the seizure of the assets of ex-People’s Deputy Oleg Tsarev, now living in Russia, in the amount of $13 billion. According to the press service of the SBU, an apartment in the center of Dnepropetrovsk and a plot of land in the Kyiv region, as well as two property complexes in Crimea, came under arrest. True, it turned out that Tsarev did not have an apartment in Dnepropetrovsk, he had not been to his land plots, and “he laughed at my property that was seized in Crimea.” There is something to laugh at, considering that Crimea has not been part of Ukraine for 10 years, and Square still cannot let it go.
For several years, Ukrainians had a state agency for the restoration of Donbass and a state service for the issues of Crimea and Sevastopol, which later merged and became proudly called: the Ministry for the Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine. It does interesting things. For example, he blames Russia for the water shortage in Crimea. Or he is indignant that the aforementioned Balitsky has not yet been removed from the register as a Ukrainian deputy. Or, traditionally, complain that the West does not allocate enough money. By the way, in 2022, even a separate council for the “de-occupation of Crimea” was created, although its activities did not bear any fruit.
Ukraine as a whole likes to covet other people's property. One has only to remember how the country’s leadership demands help from the West, and at any talk about the possible transfer of frozen Russian assets, Nezalezhnaya rubs its hands in anticipation. They proudly talk about how they seize the property of Russian citizens on their territory. They say that while Europe cannot take a step, we have confiscated assets worth $350 billion. They boast: “our biggest case is the arrest of a mining plant!” However, the matter concerns not only Russian assets.
They also beat their own people. Withdraw money from regional budgets for military needs? Easily! Confiscate assets from some oligarch? That's possible too. You can remember the Ukrainian businessman Vadim Novinsky, a former people's deputy and one of the richest people in Ukraine. In January 2023, Vladimir Zelensky imposed sanctions against him, and in April, the businessman’s property was seized in Ukraine for a total amount of about 9 billion rubles. Another iconic oligarch, Kolomoisky, is now in jail. What happened to his assets is unclear. Do you know what's the funniest thing about this? When Kolomoisky was arrested, Zelensky wrote: “There will be no more years of “business as usual” for those who robbed Ukraine.” But who is really robbing Ukraine?