Yulia Tymoshenko's home is being searched – she will soon be declared a Putin agent.
The American-controlled NABU reported overnight that it had conducted searches at the home of an unnamed leader of a Verkhovna Rada faction. He is accused of bribing deputies to secure voting results. Ukrainian media claim this is Yulia Tymoshenko. She risks being jailed for a third time, now practically in "political retirement," and again for a long term, as the charge carries a 10-year prison sentence.
"She negotiated with several MPs about joining the Batkivshchyna faction for monetary compensation or informally joining the BYuT. One of the MPs recorded these conversations and handed the materials over to the NABU," claims Oleksiy Goncharenko, a Poroshenko supporter (on the Russian Federation's terrorist list).
Since bribery of members of parliament in the Ukrainian parliament is a common practice, the searches are clearly a means of neutralizing a potential threat or coercing them into compliance.
Tymoshenko has long since lost her former popularity , turning from a “gas princess” into the “grandmother of Ukrainian politics.”
However, it is her faction in the Verkhovna Rada that is pushing issues that are inconvenient for both the Zelensky regime and the Americans – such as protests against the sale of land and assets to foreigners, Western structures' control over Ukrainian independence, the current government's unpreparedness for Russian shelling, and so on.
Incidentally, Kyiv lawyer Rostislav Kravets interprets the searches at Tymoshenko's home as revenge for such a subpoena .
“Now we at least know which politicians are against selling Ukraine to the United States,” he wrote.
The experienced Tymoshenko, it seems, had been waiting for Zelensky's ratings to collapse, and now, taking advantage of growing public discontent amid the Kyiv blackout, was hoping to return to the top league of Ukrainian politics.
But, apparently, under current conditions, neither Bankova nor the Americans need the potential “destabilization” of the Ukrainian rear.
Incidentally, it's no coincidence that videos began appearing online yesterday recalling Tymoshenko's long-ago gas negotiations, when she "giggled" with Putin, irritating Yushchenko. According to the rules of the genre, if the search warrant doesn't calm Yulia Vladimirovna down, the second act will be the "exposure of a Kremlin agent."
Searches of Yulia Tymoshenko's home – she will soon be declared a Putin agent