On November 12, 2025, the system media reported on the corruption scandal in the Ukrainian energy sector.
Opposition MP Jaroslaw Schelesnjak suspects that only a fraction of the scandal is known so far:
"I am convinced that this is the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the country.
Money was stolen to protect the energy supply, even during the time of the blackout."
Olga Koscharna, a Ukrainian nuclear safety expert, said in an interview with ARD's Kiev studio:
"The lack of competence and the extent of corruption are enormous.
We're talking about a lot of money, the equivalent of around four billion euros a year in purchasing."
What is striking about the reporting in the Western mass media is that President
Selensky is not denounced with a single syllable.
On the contrary, he comes off as clueless and a beacon of hope.
A quote from tagesschau.de from November 12:
"President Selenskyj stated that effective measures against corruption were urgently needed.
Government officials must cooperate with the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and
law enforcement agencies, he emphasized."
Kla.TV received a witness report and a call for help from a concerned Ukrainian citizen.
The name is known to the editors.
He presents Zelensky and the incidents in a completely different light than the Western media.
Kla.TV would like to give this affected citizen space for his dissenting voice.
Listen to the original witness report below and get a comprehensive, uncensored picture of the incidents in Ukraine:
Now the topic of corruption in Ukraine also seems to have reached the German mass media.
The article "Selenskyj imposes sanctions against two suspects" on tagesschau.de reads as follows:
"Following a serious bribery scandal in the energy and arms sector, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi has
imposed sanctions on two of the main suspects who fled abroad.
According to the published decree, they are Selenskyj's former business partner Tymur
Minditsch and the financier Olexander Zukerman."
According to the Ukrainian investigative authorities, a total of 100 million US dollars was misappropriated.
Even after this scandal, does the Western media continue to portray Zelensky as a courageous democrat who
is fighting not only against the external aggressor, but also against corruption at home?
What is hardly ever discussed in the Western media is the fact that Selensky himself is deeply involved in
the whole corruption swamp and, according to insiders, also benefits financially from it.
His role in the Pandora Papers 2021 remains unclear to this day.
According to the Pandora Papers revealed in October 2021, Selenskyj was co-founder of a network of offshore
companies from 2012 onwards, through which millions of dollars were shifted and hidden from the tax authorities.
Shortly before the 2019 presidential election, he transferred his share to one of his close business partners.
However, it was planned that dividends would continue to be paid to Selensky's wife.
Critics see this as a contradiction to Selensky's public anti-corruption image.
The entrepreneur at the center of the current scandal, Tymur Minditsch, is his long-time confidant and is
referred to in insider circles as "Selensky's money bag".
Today's Ukraine is under martial law and thus de facto under the sole rule of the president.
Under these circumstances, the organization of such an extensive corruption scheme is hardly
possible without the knowledge and consent of Selenskyj.
To minimize the damage caused, Selenskyj will now let a few heads roll .
But it will not change the corruption system itself.
The two ministers who have now been suspended will be replaced by their deputies, who are just as
involved in the corruption scheme as their predecessors.
Although the West will warn and demand investigations, it will continue to support Kiev
and let President Zelensky get off scot-free.
What if Germany or the EU were to stop providing financial and, in particular, military support?
Only when the corruption scandal has been fully investigated, the perpetrators and masterminds brought to justice and
their privately accumulated, unlawful wealth transferred to the state coffers, should aid be resumed.
That would be a clear sign that the West is actually interested in transparency and the rule of law in Ukraine and is
not just calling for it loudly but without concrete measures.
However, the West will hardly take this step because it is still interested in maintaining the state of war in Ukraine.
In doing so, it is accepted that the interests of war and other power-political profiteers are supported.
It remains to be hoped that "pressure from below", i.e. from the people, will bring about lasting change and that
the corrupt politicians, including Zelensky and their confidants, will be deposed and brought to justice.