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By the way, Ukraine’s defense minister Khmara is pulling SBU officers into the Ministry of Defense.
Yes, he appointed his godfather from the SBU, Shvydkyi, as his deputy — someone with absolutely no strategic experience at all, about whom the public was not told anything and not even given a photo when he was appointed to a public position. He is the only deputy recommended by Khmara, aside from Hvozdiyar, whom Fedorov at one time dismissed, according to my information, for refusing to take a polygraph, and Khmara reinstated her as a deputy.
He tried to bring over the SBU chief of staff Holovash, who is from the “kashni” faction, known as a “controller,” and who is also authorized to liaise with the Verkhovna Rada to push through certain SBU amendments and to block SBU reform.
Yes, together with the defense and law enforcement committees they pushed through a number of initiatives, for example to increase the SBU’s personnel by 10 thousand people, pretending this was solely about expanding “Alpha,” but in reality it was about finding placements for certain people. In “Alpha” there are about five hundred active people; all the other positions are for placing people under a pretty sign. Khmara and the SBU MP Kostenko were handling this at the time.
Do we need the Ministry of Defense to become yet another SBU enclave?
Are you OK with the defense minister being a person who took cash from the “kashny” and others and who helped ensure that one of the top state drone contractors, at inflated prices, became the SBU’s “Alpha”?
Do you remember the recent tragedy in Myla, when an ammunition depot detonated and 35 people died? That was an SBU “Alpha” depot organized by Khmara. At the time of the explosions he had already moved to the position of defense minister. I wrote about it; there is official information. A scapegoat was detained. No one from “Alpha” leadership, and certainly not Khmara, was held responsible for placing ammunition right next to a nursing home, where all the residents died. I am following this case.
Khmara was appointed minister, and all the procurement scandals at the Ministry of Defense went quiet; all attempts to form a vision disappeared — there is no minister.
Was that the goal? A compliant, internally compromised combat officer? A figurehead?
So do we want the Ministry of Defense to become yet another SBU enclave?
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