Well, well, well. There it is. Even if it is clouded in Reuters News doublespeak and coded language, the answer to the big question about why Zelenskyy fired the most effective military leader is right there. The key words are, “military procurement system”; or in common language “military spending.”
It never made sense; the 35-year-old Defense Minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, was heralded as turning the tide of the war in favor of Ukraine through his adaption of technology, specifically drones, and his very close relationship to Alex Karp of Palantir, a military contractor. Fedorov was young, smart, strategic and exceptionally capable. Yet, Zelenskyy fired him.
Now the real motive for dispatching Mykhailo Fedorov surfaces in his interview with Reuters. Fedorov had taken control of how the military funding was being spent, and as a result, all of those Ukraine government officials and military generals who were pocketing money, redirecting funds, giving indulgences to their families and stealing resources were blocked.
The corruption is so widespread, Zelenskyy had no choice except to eliminate the guy taking control of the payments, Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.
(July 29 – Reuters) – Former Ukrainian Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, in an interview published on Wednesday, said his efforts to overhaul the military’s procurement system were the main reason behind his dismissal this month in a military and political shake-up.
Fedorov, a technical expert seen by many as an agent for change in the nearly 4-1/2-year-old war against Russia, told the media outlet Ukrainska Pravda that the proposed changes met resistance from officials inside and around the ministry.
“The reason is connected with procurement, tenders, to the fact that we began overhauling the processes in this area,” Fedorov, 35, told Ukrainska Pravda.
“This caused significant dissatisfaction among many people, who then started constantly exerting influence and spreading negativity, not just around the president but across the broader media space.”
Fedorov, who held office for six months, said his first undertaking in office was to introduce a tender system for procurement. “Our task was to fix the root of the problem as quickly as possible,” he said.
“First, launch tenders. Second, restructure the management system in the Defence Ministry, and choose the people working there differently, based on the goals we came in with.”
Fedorov was dropped from President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s cabinet and replaced by Yevhenii Khmara, previously head of the SBU security service, in a shake-up that also saw Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko removed. (read more)
The war is about the money. Always was.
At least we are
No longer the supplier of the money.
Wanna bet?
Licensing, consultants, intelligence, satellite feeds, Intel from Russian assets, spare parts, planning, etc.
Didn’t congress just pass more money for Ukraine?
They appropriated 400 million, which Trump put on hold until he leaves office. The new bill gives them are patriot technology of which I’m completely against because they’re nothing but a laundry machine and will sell it to the highest bidder.
Congress only passes gas, sorry. The kind you don’t want.
Via IMF
I wouldn’t bet the ranch on that. Those scumbag politicians in DC will find a way to keep their money supply flowing.
… while at the same time collecting kickbacks!
Russia was recently relieved of $300 billion by the EU. This will allow the EU to create the loans that will never be paid back for funding the never-ending war (and the bureaucracy) by Ukraine against Russia. The irony of it all! Mr. Z can never get his grubby hands on enough money!
You make it sound like $300B is actually going towards the war effort. In reality maybe $1B is going into the war effort while $2B continues to feed the corrupt kickback river
“At least we are
No longer the supplier of the money.”
LOL
Billy Coulter made a funny.
Billy….are you joking ??we supply them with everythings….are Russia destroy everything…..
Ukraine, the laundromat for greased palms!
“No longer the supplier of the money”
Should be
“No longer the supplier of the cash”
And even that is debatable, seeing as the CIA budget is largely secret.
The use of US military geospatial assets, mil targeting operations taskforces, Starlink, training, AI services, intelligence services, etc. These things cost mountains of money, and was never interrupted for a moment.
It is a ludicrous egotist BS comment to say “it was always about the money. In actuality it was never about the money> Ukraine,s hatred of Russia goes back to Josef Stalin and his policy to turn Ukraine into Russia by mass starvation, death and destruction in the 1930s.
The fools that abound and claim about money is wrong. The corruption is massive but UKRAINE DID NOT NEED MONEY TO HATE RUSSIA. Don’t forget—Ukraine fought on the side of Nazi Germany in WWII. They will never change their hatred of Russia
The western nations gave Ukraine the money without controls, management or any strings and Ukraine just took it.and instantly was completely corrupt. We blame them but we were the fools and now it is too late. They put into office the midget Zelinsky and the rest is history. They fired the guy who has turned the war from Russia. LOL
I had friends in Ukraine until they had to run to Poland to escape Zelensky’s draft and it’s middle-of-the-night recruiting program. I have not heard from them since.
The Ukrainian and Russian speaking citizens have had a long relationship with mutual disdain for the Soviet government.
Two times since independence, Ukraine has voted for a pro Russia government. Both were removed by the Ukraine deep state with help from the EU and probably us. The last time was the Maidan revolution in 2014.
Since then the Ukraine government has persecuted Russian speaking people with arrests and prison. This escalated around 2018 with the Russian speaking Ukrainians running to predominately Russian eastern Ukraine.
It was then that the weekly shelling of eastern Ukraine began. My friends blamed the Azov Brigade.
No one knows how many people were killed. Western media wasn’t very interested.
The shelling became daily sometime in mid to late 2020. This is what led to the intervention by Russia.
Ukraine’s government has been terribly corrupt since independence and Ukraine has been a western money laundry for a long time.
“Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind“
And Stephen Stills checks in. Thanks for the reference.
I though it was “love the one your with”……..
Hopefully Fedorov will defend his honor and “drone” Zelenskyy.
He could become a hero there and here.
It isn’t a war… It is a money laundering operation for elites. Elite pols and elite corporations.
Millions of people die a bloody painful death so elites can get paid.
The story of most modern wars.
Dammit Vladimir, it has been over 4 years and you have not been able to drop a bomb on this little twerp!
I am amazed that Putin hasn’t done him in yet.
Really! I can’t believe that Russia couldn’t have exterminated him.
Why would Putin waste perfectly good ordnance on a mid-level stooge who’s a figurehead anyway?
Making him a martyr is not the best strategy when he was installed for a purpose.
i think Z is one of Putin’s best investments – why would he get rid of him. he is bleeding the west dry, sending millions to their death, ruining our relations, and keeping us tethered to a scam that is depleting our armory before the real war even starts.
we have chosen our “allies” for WW3 via inertia because we refused to say no… and none of them are decent ones.
Well said, and worth reading twice to let it sink in.
The average Americans apathy is really going to be tested soon.
And that test will not be the price for a gallon of gasoline!
Yes, the price of gas will probably be the least of our concerns.
Makes the way the politicians in Washington fawned all over the head of the criminal enterprise that is Ukraine all the more disgusting.
Almost the entire House and Senate has been shown to be completely corrupted for all to see.
God help us.
Wait a minute, hold on everyone.
We don’t need Gods help.
Jim Jordan with the help of all the other chairmen are going to call for more worthless hearings to get to the bottom of where our resources are going again.
Heck they might even write a sternly worded letter!
Or issue a report!
Hearings are where everything goes to die! It’s a slow death with lots of shiny things to distract us!
“That which has been is what will be,
That which is done is what will be done,
And there is nothing new under the sun.”—Ecclesiastes 1:9
So after all of this high and mighty, self righteous talk about “freedom,” it was really just about the money.
To quote the eloquent Captain Renault (Claude Rains)-“ I’m shocked, SHOCKED to find that gambling is going on in here!”
“Your winnings, sir! Oh yes, thank you very much! Out, everybody out!”
Round up the usual suspects!
When you watch movies it was- over and out! Over- a reply is expected. Out- no response is expected. Always got a chuckle on that!
In my heydays, I was a ham operator as well well as a MARS (Military Affiliate Radio System) operator handling phone patch traffic from overseas to home (CONUS- Continental United States). It allowed our boys in conflicts to talk for free back to family. that is where the over and out came into play. The phone patch was always one way at a time, thus when over was said, the other party spoke until the conversation ended, thus the out! Conditions had to be right (skip distance was involved) so we only had ideas if and when we could contact CONUS. Normally it was mornings and night hat conditions were good. The ionosphere was the controlling factor. Sunspot activity wrecked havoc on those communications. The higher the sunspot activity the less reliable communications became. A comparison to this ever notice on the AM radio at night you could get stations you normally never heard? That is skip.
Fauci is available
SURE HOPE Young 35-year-old Defense Minister, Mykhailo Fedorov SURVIVES
IKR
those were my thoughts, too… surprised he is still alive.
Which Reuters article do you want to believe is truthful? If we just accept that this really happened from a source which is a proven source of fake news and manipulation, then they win. Same way they won when they told us to stay safe, Biden won and Russia invaded Ukraine. If Zelensky did not approve of this latest headline to be released, then it simply would not have.
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https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/three-things-know-about-trumps-election-fraud-allegations-2026-07-17/
Now we know the rest of the story…
Why are we still involved in this bs?
..because..someone do not let VSGPDJT…. to have a upper hand regard Ukr. war….. and seen to me he do not care anymoe ..is anyone remember meeting VSGPDJT and Z in the Feb. 2025… and compare to this week ??? and most of MAGA voters do not like both wars !!!!!!!
I don’t know who I hate more Zelinsky, Fauci or the treasonous RINOs? Decisions, Decisions, Decisions…
That’s ok. No winner necessary. You can give them all participation trophies. 😉
i BELIEVE That’s What STARTED THIS CRAP , sometimes … !
I’d also include the Media-the stinking, bought and paid for, no conscious media…carrying the water for all of the above. They set the narrative and social media takes it from there.
Dear Diary Fauci proved it, as if there was ever a doubt.
Follow your gut feeling or use a pendulum. Neither will steer you wrong. The pendulum use is the reverse of dreaming. Your subconscious is talking to you conscious in dreams. With a pendulum it is the reverse. With a pendulum I use a yes/no question and it rarely ever steers me wrong. Many books and articles cover the subject. If you use a pendulum in public, be prepared for strange looks, LOL.
Ukraine give corruption a bad name. But child’s play considering the corruption in the US Government.
The only people more corrupt than Z are our own bureaucrats paying him.
How does bricks of $100 bills with U.S. bank labeling get into the hands of the Ukrainian Nazis without money laundering taking place ?
From the beginning of this fraudulent scheme in Ukraine it has been proven time and time again that the banking cartel is taking orders from someone to all pallets of cash to end up there without any laws being held up for those responsible just like the pallets of cash shown in Syria.
Alex Krup is a demented freak no matter how smart people believe he is and he being part of Palantir should gain him special attention along with shaky Peter Thiel.
Red Cross?
NOPE
The OVERHEAD for Them is TOO LARGE, the Stack would Be Smaller
https://www.charitywatch.org/charities/american-red-cross
OK, now do Russia.
We’re not financing Russia. We are financing Ukraine though.
Not really my point. The earlier article on Federov’s firing seemed to imply he couldn’t be the military wunderkind he was made out to be or he wouldn’t have been fired. Now this article indicates that he maybe he was a little too good and started turning over the obvious corruption in Ukraine. OK, fine. But how has this very fine site slipped into such an anti-Ukraine/pro-Russian stance? The venom expressed in these articles (and the comments!) is reaching a disturbing level. I don’t think there are good guys on either side of this fight. I’m a bit like a Georgia Bulldog fan watching Auburn play Florida – can’t they both lose? It is said the poor Russian people haven’t had a single day of good governance since Peter the Great and that sounds about right. Tsar Putin has been corruptly ruling that miserable land uninterrupted since Dec. 31, 1999. I think before everyone spins off into the 3 minutes of hate against Ukraine some semblance of reason and balance about what they face might be in order.
Wonder how long you have been reading on the Treehouse that you would write “how has this very fine site slipped into such an anti-Ukraine/pro-Russian stance? The venom expressed in these articles (and the comments!) is reaching a disturbing level. ” Or Tsar Putin has been corruptly ruling that miserable land uninterrupted since Dec. 31, 1999.”
Honestly, LJ Scott I wonder if you are being facetious?
The Reuters article reads like pure bull$4!T.
It would be a miracle if either Fedorov or Sryshyi is even still alive.
0.o
It’s probably not a good idea to let all of your competent generals know that you see them as disposable non player characters.
Ironically, competent generals are contrary to conducting a forever war where the money is in the warfare and not in the resolution.
I’ve said it before. Ukraine is the world’s largest learing center.
“QUALITY Learing Center”
Sundance, always the money, you called it early.
You took the time to educate us on this and lots of other stuff.
Thank you for it all and the treehouse . 🙂 🙂 🙂
The manure for brains duo were recipients of the grift” well whadda you know he got fired “
FJB FHB
“Well, son of a b***h…”
Filed under “Stuff Nobody Should be Surprised by”.
There are trillions at stake…..
And yet the USA continues to provide intelligence, surveillance, and targeting to the Ukrainian military.
This is the USA’s war.
The deep state runs what they want.
All that talk of ending the war in 24 hours,100 hours,100 days, the Anchorage understanding blah blah blah.
Presidents dont matter. They are waiting him out.
I blame Russia for dragging this out; they say it’s a strategy of attrition,maybe they just can’t win.
When Z flew to the US for Lindsay Graham’s funeral it wasn’t to pay respect, it was to find the next point man.
DaNang Dick is that guy. Watch him continue the money streams and make multiple trips to Kiev. He has war time experience in his own mind.
Exactly. The salivating over him was quite the photo op. Weak little men fawning over one weak little man.
Cutting off US Congress’s money flowcs is a capital offense, worthy of instant death!
However, his drone warfare isn’t the big success the msm has lead you to believe it is.
Ukraine small payload drones go “pop”, while Russia ‘s reply goes “BOOM, BOOM, BOOM”!
Federov needs to be deposed before he “commits suicide.”
American cash flow. $195 billion gifted to Ukrain so far. Not a penny for American taxpayers.
Why are there no curious serious reporters diving into the Ukraine money laundering issue? Everyone talks about the over-the-top abuse, but no reporters seem curious enough to do a deep dive regarding the issue. Very curious. And frustrating for readers that really want to get a better understanding of the blatant corruption.
The corruption is becoming less easy to cover up.
Where did the US hundreds of $billions go?
Munchkin dirty money.
How much of all that military funding that Federov was blocking was making its way to those 86 U.S Senators who just yesterday voted for the Russian sanctions bill that Zelensky was so stongly in favor of?
I think at this point, we need an intervention. The only being capable of putting a stop to the human madness is Jesus Christ and God the Father.
Human beings are incapable and unwilling to govern/control themselves. Their evil nature is now in control of their actions. I would think we are close to being in that age of, as it was in the days of Noah. And if not, it can get worse, God help us. Prepare to defend yourselves and families.
Here’s a question: For years, I was hearing that people like Lindsey Graham were so involved in Ukraine because of getting kickbacks. Yet, I was actually surprised upon his recent death to read that his net worth was barely over $1 million, and he still lived in a modest house. Just wondering how that squares with all the talk of politicians getting rich off the money laundering from Ukraine?
https://scdailygazette.com/2026/07/15/dollars-and-cents-lindsey-graham-amassed-influence-not-wall-street-wealth-over-3-decades-in-dc/
Now that they have removed the cheque book from Fedorov’s hands, the leaders of the EU can laundry some real money out of drone procurement for Ukraine.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy gives Great Britain a drone factory, paid for with money from the European Union, to be operated by the British with EU money, to sell drones back to Ukraine in exchange for EU money. There are no financial shenanigans going on here.
Money laundering operations require a complete lack of accountability. Ukraine has learned this from all our congressional junkets going there. After all they have mastered money laundering on our home front.
Our nation shouldn’t give support of any kind to this grifter so called country for one more second. No more calls answered, no more meetings scheduled, no more anything.
“The money laundering must continue!” – Pres. Zelensky
more importantly……”close friends with Alex Karp of Palantir”
Average daily Russian net gains on the ground have been growing since the firings. (I’ve been following these gains on the neutral Singapore-based website, Defense Politics Asia.)
The only way to wind this war is to get Zelensky to the negotiating table with Putin. The only way to do that is to find something personnally important to Zelensky and his cabal of corrupt bureaucrats and squeeze. That “something” is money…bank accounts, investments etc. The US Treasury needs to apply their financial tools and find every account owned by Zelensky and close it, block access to it, control it, freeze it and if need be destroy that account(s)….then dry up every river of financial support to him. Only then will you get Zelensky to the table to negotiate an end to this globalist controlled war.
None of those Ukrainian government officials and military generals who were pocketing money invented this scam.
NATO generals were skimming appropriations for years. During his entire career in DC, Biden voted for every warmonger spending bill. Do you think he didn’t get a cut? Not directly, of course, but laundered the same way that the NATO generals successfully laundered the money. Ukraine was only the out-loud, in-your-face skimmer of military aid in a crowd of ‘more-war-makes-us-richer’ grifters.
Zelensky’s continued grip on office is a damning exposure of just how hollow and impotent Trump’s so-called power really is.
The level of corruption was evident years ago when Biden was VP and sent to Ukraine to fire the Attorney General of Ukraine, or else “You don;t get your billion $ and I’m on a plane back to the US in a hour.”
Or something like that.
The corruption is rampant, it’s international, and it’s flagrant. IN YOUR FACE, WATCHA GUNNU DO ABOUT IT ?
Rat-Man Fauci here in the USA is the most current example of it.
BTW people should stop referring to him as “Dr.” Fauci.
He lost that honorarium long ago for the various Mengelian crimes he has committed.
Just say “Fauci.”
Hope that guy stays some place safe!