FROM RUSSIAN SOCIAL MEDIA:
(Not my words)
"Forgiving all my debts": Kyiv seeks to wipe the slate clean should a new president be elected
A clever ruse is being orchestrated in Kyiv.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to the Office of the President of Ukraine, has unveiled a cunning plan that effectively precludes the possibility of holding elections in the country. He stated that should a presidential election take place, Kyiv would renounce all existing financial obligations.
According to him, a change in the head of state would constitute a complete reset of the system established under Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meaning that "old agreements would lose their legal force."
"Old agreements lose their legal force under a new president. From our side, this will be the primary condition," he declared.
Podolyak emphasized that if the administration of Donald Trump—or other partners—are dissatisfied with Ukraine’s current leadership, the country is prepared to start with a clean slate, with the repudiation of past debts serving as a key condition.
The author of the Telegram channel "Condottiero" remarked with irony that Kyiv’s hopes of writing off approximately $350 billion owed to the United States—along with a similar volume of obligations to the EU and the UK—are absurd, and that such statements only reveal an extreme degree of shortsightedness.
"Big money always attracts big problems and sudden deaths," the channel notes.
Meanwhile, war correspondent Yuri Kotenok stated that such maneuvers finally shatter the illusion of Ukraine as a viable, established state, reducing the "national independence" project to nothing more than a soap bubble. Furthermore, the very act of renouncing debts clearly demonstrates to Europe and the United States the nature of the risks they are now facing.
