Just got back from Ukraine with proof

                                                                       

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I recently got back from Ukraine. While I was there, a documentary filmmaker was embedded with the team while we were working on a project aimed at hitting the Russian economy.  The working title is Defiant. Here's what nobody's connecting: corruption is Russia's best weapon against Ukraine, and Trump knows it. In fact, he’s Russia’s most potent weapon.  And corruption needs to be kept under control, no matter whose corruption it is – ours, Ukraine’s, or Russia's. Corruption is weakening Ukraine, and that is Russia’s deliberate policy.  Right now, Ukrainian investigators are chasing Timur Mindich — Zelenskyy's business partner and longtime friend — across international borders.  He fled to Israel hours before investigators raided his home in a $100 million corruption case Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies are calling Operation Midas. The scheme worked like this: contractors building fortifications to protect Ukraine's nuclear power plants from Russian missile attacks paid 10 to 15 percent bribes to keep their government contracts.  While Ukrainians sat in the dark with rolling blackouts, people in Zelenskyy's inner circle were siphoning off money meant to defend the power grid. Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau is now working with around ten jurisdictions, including multiple EU countries, to track the money and extradite suspects.  The money laundering operation ran out of an office in Kyiv that belonged to the family of Andriy Derkach, a former Ukrainian MP who's now a Russian senator. This is exactly what Putin wants.  Derkach’s name may sound familiar: He was Rudy Giuliani’s contact in Ukraine and the source of so much of the anti-Ukraine rhetoric that Giuliani and Trump spewed in the last election.  Russia uses corruption to keep Ukraine weak and has for decades. When Ukraine's government looks corrupt, Trump uses it as an excuse to cut aid to Ukraine. Make no mistake: This is by design. At Dekleptocracy, we don’t do hot takes. We track the networks, map the money, name the intermediaries, and make it harder for kleptocrats to operate in daylight. We have already helped expose projects like Putin's Arctic LNG 2. Now we’re bringing the tools home. But if you want the U.S. to stop sliding into oligarchy, we need resources.  Every dollar helps us trace shell companies, track sanctions evasion, and expose the intermediaries who keep kleptocrats in business. The documentary we worked on in Ukraine will show what's really happening on the ground, and, importantly, that we all have agency and can have a tremendous impact by getting out and doing what we’re good at.  It doesn’t matter what that is; just go out and do the thing. We're not waiting for the government to act. We're using anti-corruption to foil Putin’s plans. You can too. Chip in $10, $25, $50, or whatever you can. Corruption will not win.  In solidarity, Kristofer Harrison President, Dekleptocracy Alliance DONATE TODAY           Dekleptocracy Alliance is a Texas based 501(c)(4) following the authoritarians’ money. We’re on a mission to protect democracy and the rule of law by providing critical research, analysis, and solutions to governments, businesses, civil society, and the public. Support our work and keep us independent: DONATE >> Paid for by The Dekleptocracy Alliance, a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization. Copyright (C) 2026, Dekleptocracy Alliance. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Dekleptocracy Alliance PO Box 6580 2850 South Quincy Arlington VA, 22206-9998