Radio Zoo 📻 Global BroadcastAs members of the Ukrainian community, the very people who put these provincial crooks in office, we nominate #Mindich, #Umierov, #Halushchenko, #Derkach, and other grafters and betrayers for this supervisory board #Ukraine #energy #crimes
Radio Zoo 📻 Kyiv BroadcastingМи, як представники української спільноти, яка і обрала цих містечкових злодюжек, пропонуємо #Mindich, #Umierov, #Halushchenko, #Derkach й інших торбохватів і зрадників в цю наглядову раду #Ukraine #energy #crimes
Albert bollettino pacifistaLe autorità del Servizio di sicurezza dell'#Ucraina (#Sbu) e dell’ufficio di stato per le indagini hanno informato #Dubinsky di un procedimento penale contro di lui con l’accusa di tradimento di stato. Le agenzie hanno accusato Dubinsky, un altro ex deputato, Andriy #Derkach, e l’ex procuratore Kostiantyn #Kulych di appartenere a un’organizzazione controllata dall’agenzia di intelligence militare russa, il Gru, che avrebbe “svolto attività informative sovversive".
Kyiv arresta un deputato ucraino: collaborò con Trump contro i Biden
Dubinsky è accusato di tradimento per aver presumibilmente lavorato per aiutare la Russia nella sua guerra contro l’Ucraina. Il suo arresto riaccende i riflettori sugli sforzi dell'ex presidente e dei suoi collaboratori per ottenere vantaggi politici screditando Hunter Biden
Wendy SiegelmanNews from Sept - Andrii Derkach appointed to Russian Senate
Derkach is a US sanctioned Russian agent and fugitive Ukrainian ex-MP who fed info to Guiliani to smear Biden in 2020 and helped Erik Prince & Andrey Artemenko on deals in Ukraine
Derkach was paid $3-4 million/month by GRU to help Russia attack Ukraine
Earlier this year Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos (wife of exTrump advisor George convicted for lying to FBI) interviewed Derkach on X
https://kyivindependent.com/derkach-appointed-russian-senator/
Fugitive Ukrainian ex-MP Derkach appointed to Russian Senate
Derkach, who had been a Ukrainian lawmaker for nearly 20 years, has not attended meetings of the Ukrainian parliament since the start of the full-scale invasion. In 2023, his parliamentary powers were prematurely terminated.
Chuck DarwinThe #Smirnov case has generated plenty of headlines and has caused the leading Republican impeachers—namely, Reps. James #Comer and Jim #Jordan—to look foolish.
But it’s important to view the Smirnov affair in this wider context: Republicans and the MAGA right have eagerly participated in Kremlin scheming to undermine Biden
This Moscow plot has been a matter of public record for years. In February 2020, intelligence officials briefed House lawmakers that Moscow was interfering in the election to assist Trump’s reelection.
(This briefing, of course, angered Trump, who had refused to acknowledge that a covert program authorized by Russian leader Vladimir Putin helped him win the White House four years earlier, and he replaced the acting director of national intelligence.)
Months later, William Evanina, the director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, issued a statement declaring that Russia “is using a range of measures to primarily denigrate former Vice President Biden…Some Kremlin-linked actors are also seeking to boost President Trump’s candidacy on social media and Russian television.”
That was related to #Giuliani’s endeavor.
The NCSC statement noted that a pro-Russia Ukrainian parliamentarian named Andriy #Derkach, the son of a former KGB official, was “spreading claims about corruption…to undermine former Vice President Biden’s candidacy and the Democratic Party.”
In September 2020, Derkach was sanctioned by Trump’s Treasury Department, which called him “an active Russian agent for over a decade” and declared he was one of a group of “Russia-linked election interference actors.”
Treasury said Derkach had maintained “close connections with the Russian Intelligence Services” and had “directly or indirectly engaged in, sponsored, concealed, or otherwise been complicit in foreign interference in an attempt to undermine the upcoming 2020 U.S. presidential election.”
Trump’s own Treasury secretary, Steve #Mnuchin, remarked, “Derkach and other Russian agents employ manipulation and deceit to attempt to influence elections in the United States and elsewhere around the world.”
And who was working with Derkach to spread the false story that Joe Biden had blocked an investigation of Burisma? #Giuliani.
At one point, Derkach staged press conferences in Kyiv and played secretly recorded tapes of Biden speaking by phone with former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
Derkach insisted the recordings supported Giuliani’s allegations about Biden.
Yet the tapes revealed no misconduct. This was a disinformation stunt.
Ukrainians critical of Russia speculated that the tapes originated with Russian intelligence.
Giuliani never expressed shame for hooking up with a Russian agent. He publicly admitted he was in touch with Derkach and called him “very helpful.” He said that he and Derkach had spoken about Ukraine many times.
The bottom line: According to Trump administration officials, the Biden-Burisma allegations were in part (if not wholly) the work of Russian operatives.
Yet Trump, the MAGA right, and their media allies have been beating this drum for years, and once the GOP won back the House in 2022, it became impeachment fodder.
Then Comer, Jordan, and the rest of their crew embraced Smirnov’s charges, even though they were not substantiated and even though they were in sync with a known Russian disinformation plot that targeted Biden to aid Trump.
Moreover, it was highly suspicious that Smirnov shared his allegations with his FBI handler in June 2020
—after not mentioning them for years
—just when Giuliani and other Trumpers were striving to tar Joe Biden with this false tale.
But none of that matters for the Party of Trump and its leader.
They seem unconcerned about collaborating—colluding?—with a Kremlin operation.
After all, it worked for Trump in 2016, and since then he and his cult have demonstrated no reluctance to be exploited by Russia or to exploit Russian disinformation, even as Putin wages a horrendous war in Ukraine and intensifies his repressive and murderous reign at home.
The Smirnov case—of which there is much more to learn—shows not only that Trump and the GOP are Putin dupes;
they are willing dupes.
Derkach also played a key role helping Russia attack Ukraine (an item barely reported by the mainstream media)
A report from RUSI (Royal United Services Institute
for Defence and Security Studies) noted that Derkach was paid $3-4 million monthly by the GRU to create private security networks to assist in maintaining control in some towns and to help Russian forces when they attacked Ukraine 2022-2023
https://static.rusi.org/202303-SR-Unconventional-Operations-Russo-Ukrainian-War-web-final.pdf.pdf
Derkach aided Erik Prince and Andrey Artemenko (aka Kuchma) in Ukraine in 2020
An Ex-Blackwater employee tied to Erik Prince provided security for Giuliani In Ukraine
A March DNI report said "Putin had purview over the activities of Andriy Derkach"
I created this chart showing the network around Artemenko (Kuchma), Giuliani, Prince, Andrii Derkach, Firtash and others - who were working to dig up dirt on Biden in Ukraine in 2019-20
#derkach
https://newstracs.com/andrii-artemenko-aka-andy-kuchma-network-connections/2021/05/17/
Putin/GRU seem to have new talking points to share with the GOP:
Indicted sanctioned Russian agent Andrii Derkach (who helped Giuliani find dirt on Biden in 2019-20) shares 'new evidence' in soon to be released interview in Minsk w/Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos (wife of exTrump advisor George convicted for lying to FBI)
Derkach is the son of a KGB officer and was schooled at a KGB academy in Moscow and later became a pro-Russia Ukrainian lawmaker
Mina Hanse