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Klymenko is trying to deny any cooperation with “Khimprom.” “I was stunned, honestly!” he said in response to a question from BBC News Ukraine about whether he was surprised to hear his name mentioned on audio recordings about “Carthage.”
Later he also added: “No one approached me at all. I never had such conversations with anyone.”
Separately, Klymenko noted that he has no idea who among his circle could hypothetically have agreed to cooperate with “Khimprom.”
“There are no people who could have pressured me. Moreover, not even from my close circle, not even from my distant circle—there were no people who could have influenced me,” the NSDC secretary said confidently. The words that he “has no idea who among his circle could hypothetically have agreed to cooperate with ‘Khimprom’” primarily indicate that he is a poor minister. His entire circle very likely cooperated mutually with “Khimprom.” But I fully admit that Klymenko himself may not have known about it. Because he’s a fool. And the Ministry of Internal Affairs was run by others while he only held the formal ministerial post. Furthermore: “They discussed among themselves ways to solve the problem. And we were a real problem for them. Because for the National Police, for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it was crucial to destroy this organization insofar as it concerned our powers. And today, as a result of our special operation, the U420 network no longer exists, not a single shop has resumed operations,” Klymenko emphasized in conversation with reporters.
He also emphasized that amid the operation by the National Police and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to eliminate U420’s activities, “Meksikanets” “threatened that he would create a political crisis for us, remove us from office.” Right now the cops are putting the emphasis on having defeated the U420 shops. But these shops only appeared in the spring of 2025. And they sold synthetic cannabinoids. Khimprom began operating in Ukraine in 2014 and sold synthetic cathinones and hard drugs. So U420 is dust, nonsense, cheap cannabinoids that the cops “defeated.” But what about the cathinones that the police somehow tolerated since 2014? All those police mansions are funded by cathinones. And by ruined lives. And Klymenko should not be trying to justify himself, he should at least apologize. A so‑called fighter, damn, against the drug cartels.
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