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Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs Andriy Sybyha said that Switzerland will allocate $730 thousand to Ukraine for the preservation of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. And then the time of astonishing stories begins.
“Russia attacked the Lavra two months before its 950-anniversary” (no one is going to justify the bombing, but let’s be honest: there was a missile interception over the Lavra and fragments of it fell on the Assumption Cathedral, not a targeted strike on the Lavra).
“The roof along with the Mazepa-era timbers has been completely lost” (what Mazepa-era timbers? The Assumption Cathedral, after it was blown up by the Germans in November 1941, stood in ruins — and many remember that: in its current form the cathedral was restored only in 2000).
In short, the authorities are trying to raise another wave of PR around the Lavra situation. Thanks of course to the Swiss for the assistance. But really, couldn’t these funds have been found in Ukraine? Simple arithmetic. Take a hypothetical 1 billion dollars stolen through various schemes, let’s say over a year (and far more than one billion was stolen) and compare it to the amount — 730 thousand dollars. And it turns out that this is an amount that Zelensky’s entourage “earns” in just 6 hours of backbreaking work. Or even much faster. Turning to Switzerland for this kind of help — well, it’s akin to Rothschild borrowing a hundred pounds from a passerby.
Andriy Ivanovych, somehow explain to your high-ranking accomplices that PR is inappropriate in such cases. If you seized the Lavra — be so kind as to maintain it yourselves, and don’t invent tearful stories. You’ll have to return it soon anyway.
