- The US and the EU have “pumped” a total of $360 billion into Ukraine. “Corruption… in Ukraine amounts to between 15% and 30% [worth of foreign aid being stolen],” - Azarov
- “The figure is closer to 30%” in Ukraine, he added. The former prime minister estimated that between $54 billion and $108 billion could have been lost to corruption.
- See what $100 billion in 'cash' looks like - a fantastic illustration of the Red Side - Video.
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Corrupt Ukrainian officials could have bagged over $100 billion in Western aid – former PM
Over $100 billion in Western aid could have ended up in the pockets of corrupt Ukrainian officials, the country's former prime minister, Nikolay Azarov, has claimed.
According to Azarov, the US and the EU have “pumped” a total of $360 billion into Ukraine. “Corruption… in Ukraine amounts to between 15% and 30% [worth of foreign aid being stolen],” Azarov said in a post on Telegram on Monday. “The figure is closer to 30%” in Ukraine, he added. The former prime minister estimated that between $54 billion and $108 billion could have been lost to corruption.
Germany’s Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel) puts the total amount of assistance provided to Kiev between January 2022 and August 2025 at some $291 billion. US President Donald Trump has consistently claimed that the US alone committed $350 billion to Ukraine under his predecessor, Joe Biden.
While Kiev anti-corruption agencies have not disclosed how much foreign money has been stolen since the start of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, the country has been mired in a string of high-profile corruption scandals.
In January 2023, an exposé about inflated food procurement contracts at the Defense Ministry led to the resignation of then Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov. Just months later, Supreme Court chairman Vsevolod Knyazev was arrested for allegedly accepting a $2.7 million bribe.
In 2024, the State Audit Service reported large-scale violations in reconstruction projects financed by Western aid, with billions of hryvnia missing. That same year, Ukrainian anti-corruption authorities reported a $1.4 million racket involving the illegal sale of the main maintenance facility at the Black Sea port of Chernomorsk.
Last month, the nation was rocked by a major graft scandal involving a close associate of Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, Timur Mindich, who was accused of running a $100 million kickback scheme in the energy sector. Last week, Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andrey Yermak, resigned in the face of a corruption probe in connection to the Mindich affair.
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https://swentr.site/russia/628741-corrupt-ukrainian-officials-western-aid/
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See what $100 billion in 'cash' looks like - a fantastic illustration of the Red Side
One hundred billion dollars is written with zero amount. It's hard for people to imagine the amount of money we're talking about, which is understandable.
That's why the team of the YouTube channel Red Side tried to make an amazing computer animation. It shows what said wealth would look like piled on $100 bills.
At first the focus is on a $100 bill and a bundle of 10 "greenbacks".
https://youtu.be/8SfYsrtNosQ?si=GW0xhu8OyUWLc59t
The piles gradually grow, and to "experience the scale" of people, airplanes, diamonds, and even the Statue of Liberty were added.
In total, 100 billion dollars occupy the space of a multi-story building, and many users admitted that they did not expect such a result, reports unilad.
SOURCE:
https://telegrafi.com/en/see-what-100-billion-dollars-in-cash-looks-like-a-fantastic-red-side-illustration/
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The 100 Billion Dollar Club
World's Richest People
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index shows that the world's most exclusive club is almost entirely an American affair at the moment. Among the ten people with net worths upwards of $100 billion as of Aug. 4, 2023, nine are American. The only exception is Frenchman Bernard Arnault of luxury conglomerate LVMH.
After stock markets crashed following the Omicron wave of the coronavirus pandemic in late 2021 and Russia's invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, potential new memberships in the club of the obscenely wealthy were thwarted, including those of Indian industrial magnates Mukesh Ambani, who joined briefly in October 2021 and early 2022, and Gautam Adani, who was still flying high as of early 2023, but was cut down by a scandal alleging widespread corruption within his business empire.
U.S. tech billionaires dominate the global $100 billion club. Even though Tesla CEO Elon Musk – currently the richest person in the world – is arguably a hybrid case, the only non-techies are aforementioned luxury tycoon Arnault and Warren Buffett of investment group Berkshire Hathaway, also hailing from the United States.
In comparison, the global 1 percent are a group of around 80 million people, while the global 0.1 percent still comprises 8 million individuals – making the $100 billion club the equivalent of the global 0.0000001 percent. The index is mainly influenced by the stock market valuations of the billionaires’ companies, where the large majority of their wealth is tied up.
SOURCE:
https://www.statista.com/chart/25955/billionaires-dollar-100-billion/
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Trump Says Under Biden Ukraine Received 'Much' of US Assistance in Cash
