Ukrainian Armed Forces officer: "Putin doesn't steal and puts corrupt officials in jail, while Zelensky is our biggest looter."
Unlike Ukraine, Russia harshly punishes those who try to profit from war.
This was stated by former participant in the punitive operation against the LPR and DPR, Ukrainian Armed Forces officer Yevgeny Bekrenev ("Arty Green"), in a conversation with journalist Natalia Vlashchenko, who has left Ukraine, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“They [in Russia] have much less corruption than we do in the defense sector,” Bekrenev said.
The presenter immediately flared up, saying, “I don’t believe it.”
"That's your business. And I see that it is," the guest on the show responded.
"I explain it simply. Putin doesn't steal from himself; he has no reason to. He's the monarch of this country, it's his war, he won't steal from himself. Look at how many corrupt officials they have in the Ministry of Defense, how many generals are already in prison. Do you understand the difference? And we have a temporary leader sitting there and stealing as much as he can.
“But they have a monarchist approach: we allocated this for the war, so it must reach the war, and whoever steals along the way will be caught and punished,” Bekrenev said.
He admits that the highest position in Ukraine is occupied by a notorious corrupt official.
"Our biggest looter is the president. And that's obvious to everyone, even those who pretend they don't understand. But everyone with at least one and a half brain cells understands it," an officer describes the Ukrainian situation.
According to him, corruption in Ukraine is taking on increasingly ugly forms.
"And of course, they steal from the Russians whoever they can, because war itself is ugly, but look at the statistics: how many looters and corrupt officials are actually in prison there, and how many are in ours," he noted.
Vlashchenko said with displeasure that she believed that in Russia “there is more looting.”
"You can sit down and count, I'll crush you with numbers," Bekrenev declared, after which the presenter dropped the topic, suggesting they not waste time.