Putin has Paul Manafort's friend Yanukovych waiting in Minsk, Belarus to be Pres. of Ukraine

[JoanofArgh]

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Putin wants to reinstate Yanukovych as president of Ukraine — Viktor Yanukovych is in Minsk, and the Kremlin is preparing an operation to replace Zelensky with the ex-president ousted by the EuroMaidan Revolution in 2014




But that’s not how U.S. diplomats saw it at the time. A U.S. embassy cable sent from Kiev to Washington in 2006 described Manafort’s job as giving an “extreme makeover” to a presidential hopeful named Viktor Yanukovych, who had the backing of the Kremlin and most of Ukraine’s wealthiest tycoons. His Party of Regions, the cable said, was “a haven” for “mobsters and oligarchs.”

Making things harder for Manafort were the candidate’s rough manners and criminal past, which had dimmed his chances of winning elections. Oafish and inarticulate, Yanukovych had served jail time in his youth for theft and battery. He also had a hard time speaking Ukrainian – the national language – as he had grown up in the Russian-speaking province of Donetsk. Yet Manafort accepted the challenge of trying to make Yanukovych electable. The man paying the exorbitant bills for these efforts was an early backer of the Party of Regions, the coal and metals magnate Rinat Akhmetov, who soon began calling Manafort his friend.

https://time.com/5003623/paul-manafort-mueller-indictment-ukraine-russia/


Yanukovych is a total thug just like Belarus' Lukashenko

[gab13by13]

1. I'm not so sure about that,

Putin was extremely pissed off at Yanukovych because he didn't stick it out in Ukraine, he turned tail and ran to Russia.

Yanukovych may be the 2nd most hated person in Ukraine, next to Putin.

[Katcat]

2. And?

You say that like putin will think it’s a bad thing if his puppet is hated. I’d think that that makes it more likely putin would install him. Nobody will be happy but putin.

[gab13by13]

3. No, he is a candidate I'm sure,

if Putin forgave him.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. That's why Ukranians had to kill Kadyrov assassination squad. (from Kadyrov who leads Chechnya)

Kadyrov, Lukashenko, Yanukovych, Belarus, Chechnya, ...

... so much brutality and thuggery.


tRump of course admires thugs and mob bosses and tries to emulate them.

[yaesu]

5. One of pootys goals, install a puppet who will make up charges against Pres Biden in order to help

tRump, his top agent.

[Botany]

6. The Ukrianians would kill him in a heartbeat.

I think they ran him out the country so fast he had to leave much of his stolen loot behind.



Although the GOP would be happy to have him here. "Yanukovych had served jail time in his youth for theft and battery."

[Tommy Carcetti]

14. I've been to his house.

They wouldn't let us inside though.

Ukraine preserved it as a "Museum to Corruption" with the grounds open to the public.

He actually had very weird taste. Stuffed dummies of himself, a golden piece of bread, and a habitat for pigeons on his ground.

Putin's puppets are odd folk.

[roamer65]

15. Viktor Najibullah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Najibullah

[FakeNoose]

7. It's further proof that Pootie is completely out of touch with reality

The Ukrainian people would no more accept this than the Russian people would tolerate their leader doing it.

[3auld6phart]

8. Pukin

such a little shit. What is the height of that snot
sucker? Seems he has to look up wards when talking to others. Oh, yeah and looking over his shoulders constantly watching for an assassin.

[Roc2020]

9. Putin knows he can't install a puppet leader

in Ukraine. Maybe if the war was quick. But not now. scary thing is maybe Putin does not know how this war ends.

[JoanofArgh]

12. Like all authoritarians, Putin's only qualification for any type of job,

including military Generals and leaders of countries, is complete and total loyalty. It may not be Yanukovych but he'll be a puppet. Trump was like this, too.

[Tommy Carcetti]

10. That will go over swimmingly.

I'm sure Ukrainians will welcome him back with open arms.

They absolutely adored him.

(Do I even need the tag?)

[Crunchy Frog]

11. The international community must never recognize him.

I hope there's a designated successor to be president in exile.

No embassy seats including the UN to be filled by an illegitimate government.

Yanukovich can play pretend president while trying not to get shot as a traitor.

[Happy Hoosier]

13. The international community must never allow it to come to that. NT

[lagomorph777]

16. He barely escaped with his life the last time.

Ukraine will not be so kind the next time.