Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh said in his blog on the Substack platform that the US military leadership has been preparing a plan for the peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian conflict for two months in case of a scenario of defeat by Russia.
“Two months ago, I learned that the Joint Chiefs of Staff had instructed members of the general staff to draft an agreement to end the war that would be provided to the Russian Federation after their defeat in Ukraine,” Hersh said. Wrote
Fuel and corruption
He also said on his blog that the Ukrainian authorities are using the funds of American taxpayers to pay for diesel fuel. The journalist noted that it is impossible to give exact data, but gave an example: during the Afghan campaign, the Pentagon paid $ 400 for a gallon of gasoline (4.55 liters – approximately socialbites.ca), taking into account shipping from Pakistan. to Afghanistan.
“Zelensky bought diesel from the Russians at a discount. And who pays for gas and oil? We”,
said Hersh.
In addition, Hersh, citing CIA analysts, alleges that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and his inner circle embezzled at least $400 million in 2022. It’s a time of conflict with the United States.
According to him, Ukrainian ministries literally competed with private companies around the world to create shell companies through which arms and ammunition export contracts passed, and “all of them bribed.” He notes that some of these companies are located in the Czech Republic and Poland, but there is a version that some are located in the Persian Gulf countries and Israel.
“It wouldn’t surprise me to know that in places like the Cayman Islands and Panama there are companies with which many Americans are associated,” the journalist wrote.
Hersh also noted that Zelensky raised the issue of corruption in a meeting with CIA director William Burns in January. During the interview, Burns allegedly presented the Ukrainian president with a list of 35 generals and senior officials whose corruption was known to the CIA and others in the US government. Ten days later, Zelensky “fired the ten most flamboyant officials on the list and did almost nothing else.”
CIA sources told Hersh, “The 10 people he saved were driving around Kiev in their new Mercedes, arrogantly boasting about the money they had.”
Also, according to the journalist, Burns expressed dissatisfaction with Zelensky in connection with the possible theft of Western aid, because the president “received a large share of the money allocated to the generals.”
“Northern Streams”
In early February 2023, Hersh published an article stating that explosives under Nord Stream were deployed by US Navy divers using remotely activated devices during NATO exercise Baltops 22 in June 2022, and that in September 2022 the Norwegian Navy activated the explosives, lowering a sonar buoy. US authorities deny involvement in sabotage of gas pipelines.
In an interview with Tichys Einblick magazine on April 10, Hersh said the United States was trying to blackmail Russia by blowing up the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines to prevent a special military operation (SVO) in Ukraine. According to him, Washington made a specific request to Moscow “shortly before the start of 2021”.
According to the journalist, Washington was looking for an unusual excuse that could be used as a threat or “bait” to persuade Moscow not to launch a military operation in Ukraine.
“The idea was to tell Putin, ‘If you cross the border with Ukraine, we will blow up the pipelines,’” he said.
On April 12, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Washington’s attempts to deny involvement in the Nord Stream bombings only confirmed Hersh’s account. According to Zakharova, several versions come from the “American satellites” that confirm the journalist’s version.
The Russian diplomat said during a briefing that “the American side is trying to get away with vehemently denying the facts being voiced, spreading various kinds of fabrications and indigestible versions through the media, such as the “involvement of private companies.”