www.independent.co.uk
Ukraine secret services capture close Putin ally after weeks on the run
He was reported to have escaped house arrest just three days after Putin launched Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Excellent job Ukraine! You continue to embarrass and stand up to your bully next door. the next time, it´ll be vovka pootler, chained like a dog and humiliated !
Interesting spin. He was Pootin's choice to replace Zelensky. He will not do it, because Pootin's war is a failure. He could not even take the Capitol. Now he is killing civilians...cause his army is too weak to fight the Ukrainian militarty. The Russian soldiers can kill women and children, but no so much opposing soldiers.Well, here's the Russian's take on it, for more than one perspective. And quite a bit more thorough and histtorical...
''Medvedchuk heads the second largest party in the national parliament, the “Opposition Platform - For Life.” He was previously placed under house arrest, last year, as part of Zelensky's clampdown on dissent, which was granted tacit approval by the regime's Western supporters.
Medvedchuk, who opposed the 2014 Kiev Maidan, and believes the country's Western turn to be detrimental to Ukraine's interests, has led his party since 2018. He previously served as Chief of Staff to former President Leonid Kuchma, in the early 2000s.
Some Western commentators have labelled him as Vladimir Putin's "closest ally in Ukraine." However, the Russian President has described Medvechuk as a "Ukrainian nationalist."
In 2019, Opposition Platform - For Life won 13% of the vote in a parliamentary election, making it the country's largest opposition faction. Last year, polls showed that it had passed out Zelensky's Servant of the People as the most popular party in the state.
That seemed to prompt a crackdown by Zelensky, who closed media outlets associated with Medvedchuk. Soon after, the politician was arrested on politically motivated "treason" charges.
Medvedchuk has rejected accusations of being “pro-Russian,” insisting his party represents millions of ordinary Ukrainians. In February 2021, he accused Zelensky of seeking to establish a dictatorship in Ukraine and suppress the legally elected opposition.
Authorities in Kiev also charged Zelensky’s predecessor Petro Poroshenko with treason, back in December 2021 – on the same charge as Medvedchuk: illegally buying coal from the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Lugansk and thus “financing terrorism.”
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Ukrainian opposition leader arrested
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has triumphantly announced the arrest of opposition leader Viktor Medvedchuk by security forceswww.rt.com
Do a little research before you post propaganda for Pootin.
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Viktor Medvedchuk - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
In Ukraine, Medvedchuk is considered an ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin, whom Medvedchuk has referred to as "a personal friend".[15] Some foreign commentators have also called him Putin's closest ally in Ukraine.[16] Putin is the godfather of Medvedchuk's youngest daughter.[17]
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Now we know why he went missing. He was waiting for Pootin to take the capitol and then step in as the puppet president. Did not happen!
You do what you have to do Comrade.
Putin's choice? Where's the citation for your claim?
Link?
This is the Wiki link for Putin as godfather. You read this? Where is the English translation?
He was the Pootin Puppet in waiting. Didn't quite work out the way Pootin planned. So now he is killing civilians.
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