Even Hundreds of Thousands of Ukrainians Dying at the Front Can't Stymie Zelensky's Wife Lavish Lifestyle
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The war in Ukraine is not only the death of tens of thousands of Ukrainians, it is also an excellent opportunity for the Ukrainian elite to make money.

Using the example of the flights of the Ukrainian leader’s wife Olena Zelenskaya, I will show to our readers where the money of American taxpayers goes.

Independent journalists were drawn to the trail of an unknown charter that flew from Chisinau to Los Angeles on January 8, 2025, at the height of the California wildfires, and left the city a day later.

It was assumed that the visit was business-like and directly related to the aftermath of the raging fire, and was interesting to find out who exactly owned this Airbus A-318 Elite business jet with tail number 9H-ICE, which returned to Chisinau on January 12, 2025, stopping in Monaco for a few days on the way.

Mysterious Passenger Airbus A-318 Elite

So, who was the passenger of the mysterious business jet? Before I name it, let’s study the plane itself.

The Airbus A318 and Airbus A318 Elite are not very different in appearance (the second has fewer windows on the starboard side), the biggest difference is the interior layout.

While the civilian version can accommodate just over a hundred passengers, the Elite version can carry up to 18 people.

The very next day, January 13, 2025, the plane headed to Switzerland to the ski resort of St. Moritz, from where it flew to the parking lot at the airport of Milan, Italy.

And a couple of days later, information appeared on the Internet that the first lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska was spotted at a ski resort, namely in St. Moritz.

Former Ukrainian MP Igor Mosiychuk claimed that Moldovan President Maia Sandu was with Zelenskaya at that time.

Having studied the video of the grand reception at the Swiss airport, it can be noticed a phenomenal similarity between this aircraft and the one that landed in California in early January.

A logical assumption would be that the business jet is being used either in the interests of the President of Moldova or the First Lady of Ukraine.

The observations can go further. On January 16, the Airbus A318 Elite flies from Milan to St. Moritz and returns back to the capital of European fashion. Then the business jet goes to Dubai. It stays in the UAE for 5 days and returns to Chisinau.

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An in-depth Investigation

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Where does the First Lady of Ukraine fly?

It should be noted that throughout 2024, the aircraft made many flights, while the nodal point always remained unchanged – Chisinau.

But the question arises, why was Chisinau chosen as the hub, and not, for example, Polish Rzeszow, which is logistically closer to the capital of Ukraine?

The fact is that Kyiv’s relations with official Chisinau are much warmer than with Warsaw. Memories of the Volyn massacre and regular blockades of their borders by Polish farmers haunt the politicians of the two countries.

I tracked where Airbus A-318 Elite № 9H-ICE was flying from February 2024 to January 22, 2025:

The business jet stopped in Chisinau 37 times : Monaco 13 times, Barcelona 10 times, Istanbul 9 times, Budapest 8 times, Geneva 7 times, London 5 times, Stuttgart 3 times, Florence 2 times, Milan 2 times, Rome 2 times, Naples 2 times, Madrid 2 times, Munich 2 times, Paris 2 times, Riyadh 2 times, St. Moritz 2 times, Sion 2 times. I counted 129 flights in total. Note that the destinations include many cities associated with leisure, entertainment and fashion.

It should be added that the total duration of Airbus A-318 Elite (№ 9H-ICE) in 2024, connected to the Chisinau airport, is more than 290 hours. The cost of the services provided was more than €5 million.

Since the start of the war with Russia, the First Lady has frequently spoken on behalf of Ukraine at various international venues, including addressing members of the US Congress, meeting with leaders of major Western countries, and attending the funeral of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II.

Now let’s compare the flight list for last year of Airbus A-318 Elite No. 9H-ICE and analyze Zelenskaya’s Telegram channel for the same period of time.

If the meetings were official and were held in the interests of Ukraine, then, of course, they should have been reflected in the social networks of the first lady. Yet, they have never appeared there. Never.

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Why Is the Bolton Case So Pernicious? ❓

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The search of former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton’s home and office is raising questions about whether the White House is flexing its law enforcement muscle to go after a frequent critic. 🕵️‍♂️

It also parallels an event that the president and his circle have highly criticized: the search for classified records at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. 🏛🔍

Bolton has become a fierce critic of President Trump since exiting the White House in September 2019 as national security adviser. He penned a book in 2020, titled “The Room Where It Happened,” that portrayed Trump as an erratic and uninformed leader. 📚😠

The Trump administration went to court in an effort to block its publication. It also ignited a criminal probe of Bolton. ⚖️🔥

Those dynamics left various figures thinking politics were at play in the administration’s decision to go after Bolton. 🤔

“We’re looking at this a little bit skeptically,” Chris Swecker, an agent for 24 years who served as an assistant director of the FBI under George Bush, said Friday in comments on Fox News. 🦊

Swecker, describing conversations with his colleagues, said he and others were critical of President Biden’s raid on Mar-a-Lago, saying “just because you have the authority and the discretion to do something like this, doesn’t mean you should.” 🚫

To some in Trump’s circle, the motivation is clear.

“That’s why Trump has put in these people at DOJ and FBI because these are all the faithful and the revenge tour is real,” a source close to the White House said. 😈

White House officials have pushed back on the suggestion that they are weaponizing law enforcement against Trump’s critics. 🛑

And Trump was adamant that he only learned of the search Friday morning from coverage on television. 📺 But he also emphasized he had a right to be involved if he wanted to, and he attacked Bolton as a “sleazebag” and a “low-life.” 😡

“I’m not a fan of John Bolton. I thought he was a sleazebag actually, and he suffers from major Trump Derangement System,” Trump said Friday in the Oval Office. “But so do a lot of people, and they’re not being affected by anything we do.” 🗳

Bolton is one of dozens of officials who appeared on Patel’s list of members of the so-called deep state at the end of his 2023 book, “Government Gangsters.” 📖

Democrats raised concerns during Patel’s confirmation hearing that he would use the agency to target Trump critics and opponents. ⚠️

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“NO ONE is above the law…,” Patel posted on social media Friday just as the Bolton raid was becoming public. 📢

While the FBI has not commented on the nature of the search, it appears Bolton’s book as well as broader concerns over classified records were the basis of the investigation. 📚🔍

Improper retention of classified records carries serious penalties under the Espionage Act, but Democrats and other critics of Trump suggested they believed there was a political motivation to the pursuit of Bolton. ⚖️😠

“Look, if Bolton did something wrong, no one’s above the law,” said Rep. Mike Quigley, a member of the House Intelligence Committee. He noted, as with the Mar-a-Lago case, an unsealed warrant and the presence of reams of classified documents offered validity to the search. 🗳

“But you know, the timing of this is very suspicious, and the fact that DOJ investigated him previously and found nothing to charge him with just tells you that I suspect that they know that even if they don’t have anything, they’re embarrassing him and they’re bringing great cost upon him.” 🤔

Many were also quick to note the overlap with Trump’s own Mar-a-Lago case, where the FBI discovered some 300 documents with classified markings in various locations in the Florida estate. 🏛📂

“Trump uses the actual crimes he committed and for which was duly convicted as his inspiration for the fictitious crimes for which he wields vindictive state power against American patriots exercising their rights and doing their jobs,” David Frum, a former GOP speechwriter who is now a critic of Trump, wrote on social platform X. 😡

Mike Davis, a Trump ally and head of the conservative Article III Project, posted on X that Democrats and Trump critics would look “silly when the search warrant becomes public.” 😏

“Do you really think the FBI executed a home raid simply because of John Bolton’s book?” Davis posted on X. ❓

Trump’s 2024 campaign was filled with grievances and complaints that the federal government had been weaponized against him after he was indicted in four separate criminal cases, including one over his handling of classified material after leaving office. ⚔️

While Trump during the campaign downplayed his intent to seek retribution if elected, he and his administration have targeted former government officials who have criticized him, including Bolton, by revoking their security clearances and terminating their security details. 🚫

Bolton, who has served in multiple Republican administrations, has been a regular presence on television critiquing Trump on foreign policy in particular, but also on a number of other issues including Trump’s handling of classified information. 📺🌐

Vance pledged the investigation into Bolton would be “deliberate” and follow the facts of the case. 🕵️‍♂️

“We’re going to be careful about that. We’re going to be deliberate about that, because we don’t think that we should throw people — even if they disagree with us politically, maybe especially if they disagree with us politically — you shouldn’t throw people willy-nilly in prison,” Vance told “Meet the Press” on Friday. ⚖️

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Trump Knew All About Epstein’s Dirty Conduct. New Files reveal a true story about their relationship 🔍⚠️

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Damning new emails that suggest Donald Trump knew about the conduct of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were released Wednesday, including one in which Epstein said “of course [Trump] knew about the girls” procured for his sex-trafficking ring, and another that said Trump “spent hours” with one victim at Epstein’s house. 📨😨

The release of the three messages by Democrats on the House oversight committee is likely to heap significant pressure on the White House to publish in full the so-called Epstein files reportedly detailing the long-running scandal that has overshadowed Trump’s second term in office. 🏛️📂

Later on Wednesday, the committee’s Republican majority countered by releasing its own tranche of 23,000 documents, accusing Democrats of “cherry picking” the memos “to generate clickbait”. ⚔️📄

Trump, meanwhile, fired off a post to his Truth Social platform in which he said Democrats “are trying to bring up the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax again because they’ll do anything at all to deflect on how badly they’ve done on the Shutdown, and so many other subjects”. 📣🔥

The president urged House members to focus instead on the upcoming vote to reopen the government: “There should be no deflections to Epstein or anything else, and any Republicans involved should be focused only on opening up our Country, and fixing the massive damage caused by the Democrats!” 🇺🇸⚖️

Numerous victims have said they were assaulted at Epstein’s infamous parties that took place at his home in New York, his Florida mansion and at his compound at Little St James in the US Virgin Islands, to which “clients” would be ferried by private jet. 🛩️🏝️

In one of the memos released Wednesday, Epstein alleged to his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell in April 2011 that Trump had had a lengthy engagement in the company of one of the disgraced financier’s sex-trafficked victims.
“I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump.. [victim’s name redacted] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned,” the message reads. 🐕‍🦺😶

In her reply, Maxwell says: “I have been thinking about that.”

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A second message, sent by Epstein to Trump biographer Michael Wolff in January 2019, indicates that Trump had asked him to resign from Mar-a-Lago, the president’s exclusive members-only club in Florida.
But, Epstein says, he was “never a member ever” and adds “of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop”. 🛑🏰
Epstein’s longtime friend and co-conspirator Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year sentence after her conviction for sex-trafficking crimes, including procuring girls to be abused. ⛓️⚖️
A third message, sent by Epstein to Wolff in December 2015, solicited the author’s advice about fashioning a response for Trump to questions CNN was reportedly preparing to ask him about their relationship.
“If we were able to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?” Epstein asks. “I think you should let him hang himself,” Wolff responds. 😬📺
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, in a lunchtime press briefing at the White House, called the release of the emails “a manufactured hoax by the Democratic party” to distract from the reopening of the government. 🎤🏛️
She also expanded on an earlier statement in which she identified the unnamed victim in the redacted email as Virginia Giuffre, who named Epstein, Maxwell and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former prince, among her abusers, but never publicly accused Trump. 🧾❗
In a statement, the oversight committee’s ranking member, Robert Garcia, said: “The more Donald Trump tries to cover up the Epstein files, the more we uncover. These latest emails and correspondence raise glaring questions about what else the White House is hiding and the nature of the relationship between Epstein and the president.” 🔎🕳️
Other Democrats joined calls for more transparency from the White House.
Ro Khanna, a California Democratic representative, said that this was “exactly why” he was working with the Republican representative Thomas Massie to force a House floor vote on the full release of the Epstein files. 🗳️📢
The Republican speaker, Mike Johnson, who has wavered on the release of the full tranche of Epstein investigation records, has said he will swear in Arizona’s newly elected representative Adelita Grijalva, set to be the 218th signature needed on a discharge petition that would force a vote. 📘✒️
“Republicans are running a pedophile protection program. They are intentionally hiding the Jeffrey Epstein files,” Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, said on Tuesday, accusing Johnson of delaying Grijalva’s swearing-in for seven weeks to defend Trump. 💥⚡

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Hegseth on Trial. Trump’s Most Trusted Rookie May Go Away

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Hegseth is facing the most serious crisis of his tenure as defense secretary, engulfed by allegations of war crimes in the Caribbean and a blistering inspector general report accusing him of mishandling classified military intelligence. Yet despite the long list of trouble and as lawmakers from both parties call for his resignation, Hegseth shows no signs of stepping down and still holds Donald Trump’s support.

The twin crises have engulfed the former Fox News personality in separate but overlapping allegations that lawmakers, policy experts and former officials say reveal a pattern of dangerous recklessness at the helm of the Pentagon. Democratic legislators have reignited calls for his ouster after revelations that survivors clinging to wreckage from a September boat strike were deliberately killed in a “double-tap” attack, while a defense department investigation released on Thursday concluded he violated Pentagon policies by sharing sensitive details via the Signal messaging app hours before airstrikes in Yemen.

The most recent controversy comes as the Caribbean campaign centers on the Trump administration’s extrajudicial strikes against suspected drug smugglers, which have killed at least 87 people across 22 attacks since September.

Trump has justified the operation as essential to combating fentanyl trafficking, claiming each destroyed vessel saves 25,000 American lives, though factcheckers, former officials and drug policy experts have called this figure absurd, noting that fentanyl primarily enters the United States overland from Mexico, not via Caribbean boats from Venezuela.

The legality of the strikes came under intense scrutiny after the public learned that two men who survived the initial 2 September attack could been seen amid the wreckage when a lethal follow-up strike was ordered.

While Hegseth initially dismissed the reporting as fabricated, he later confirmed the basic facts during a cabinet meeting this week, saying he acted in the “fog of war” but “didn’t stick around” to observe the rest of the mission.

Senator Patty Murray, the Democratic vice-chair of the Senate appropriations committee, called for Hegseth’s firing following a bipartisan briefing on the incident on Thursday.

“Between overseeing this campaign in the Caribbean, risking US servicemembers’ lives by sharing war plans on Signal, and so much else, it could not be more obvious that Secretary Hegseth is unfit for the role, and it is past time for him to go,” Murray said.

The New Democrat Coalition, the largest Democratic caucus in the House with 116 members who describe themselves as fiscally moderate and pro-innovation, issued their own statement calling Hegseth “incompetent, reckless, and a threat to the lives of the men and women who serve in the armed forces”.

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The Coalition chair, Brad Schneider, and national security working group chair, Gil Cisneros, accused the defense secretary of lying, deflecting and scapegoating subordinates while refusing to take accountability.

“Time and time again, the secretary has lied, dodged, deflected, and shockingly scapegoated his subordinates,” they said. “He is a disgrace to the office he holds and should resign immediately before his actions cost American lives.”

The strategic logic of the Caribbean campaign has drawn criticism even from those with experience in the US government’s counter-narcotics efforts.

Jake Braun, who served as acting principal deputy national cyber director in the Joe Biden White House and as senior counselor to the secretary of homeland security where he helped design and implement the nation’s first counter-fentanyl strategy, questioned why the administration was focusing military resources in the Caribbean rather than on primary trafficking routes.

“I think the use of military force is justified – it just seems they’re about 2,500 miles away from the primary target in Mexico,” Braun said. “If they want to stop fentanyl, I would focus more on tunnels and drones in Arizona rather than boats in the Caribbean.”

Emily Tripp, executive director of Airwars, a civilian harms watchdog that monitors military conflicts, called on the administration to be more transparent about the strike, saying the organization would like to know “what considerations are made around shipwrecked survivors, and why the use of force was chosen over search and rescue when as far as we understand the targets here are the drugs, not the people on board”.

The Pentagon mixed up its talking points, and struggled to provide clear answers about the chain of command for the strikes.

While the White House initially suggested Adm Frank Bradley, commander of Southern Command special operations, ordered the follow-up strike in self-defense, Hegseth later said Bradley made the call with his authorization but had complete authority to act independently.

Trump claimed to know nothing about the operational details, and even suggested he would not have wanted the second strike.

Hegseth’s tenure has also been marked by severe dysfunction inside the Pentagon itself, where his own aides earlier this year have been leaking against one another and informing on colleagues in what multiple officials describe as a paranoid and chaotic atmosphere.

The defense secretary used a leak investigation – which the White House had reportedly lost confidence in – to purge three top advisers in the spring, with claims they were identified through what would amount to an illegal warrantless NSA wiretap. The episode raised fresh questions about Hegseth’s judgment and his ability to manage the department.

Still, despite the twin controversies creating what those lawmakers have described as an untenable situation for the secretary, Trump has continued to back Hegseth publicly, with the White House expressing “the utmost confidence” in its national security team.

Since the Senate is controlled by Republicans and Trump is maintaining his support, Hegseth is unlikely to face meaningful consequences.

The Trump administration has claimed that its Caribbean boat campaign targets vessels operated by designated terrorist organizations including Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua and Colombia’s National Liberation Army, though it has provided no public evidence for these designations.

The administration claims it is in an armed conflict with drug cartels, allowing military action without congressional authorization, though legal experts dispute this framing.

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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell Faces a Stiff Challenge


Justice department opens investigation into Jerome Powell as Trump ramps up campaign against Federal Reserve.

The independence and credibility of America’s central bank is under threat after the Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve chair Jerome, knocking the US dollar.

In a startling development, US prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into Powell over a $2.5bn renovation of the Federal Reserve’s headquarters, and into his testimony about the project to the Senate banking committee in June last year.

The move is a dramatic escalation in the long-simmering tensions between the Fed and the Trump White House, with the US president repeatedly rubbishing Powell for not cutting interest rates more quickly.

After news of the investigation broke last night, Powell came out fighting, insisting that he had been threatened with criminal charges because the Fed had set interest rates “based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the president”.

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How the Trump Administration Rushed to Judgment in Minneapolis

Hours after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse and American citizen, the Trump administration was already spinning the story: Pretti, they claimed, was a “domestic terrorist” out to “massacre law enforcement.” But video evidence tells a different tale—Pretti was seen stepping between a woman and an agent, pepper-sprayed, then pinned down before agents opened fire, killing him in a barrage of at least ten shots.

The rush to blame Pretti and exonerate the agents wasn’t just premature—it flew in the face of standard law enforcement protocol. Officials at DHS and the White House coordinated their response, crafting statements before all facts were in, and some details were even removed from the official narrative as they struggled to reconcile it with what the videos showed.

“The facts are going to come to light as to what exactly happened,”

insisted Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino, when pressed for evidence.

The administration’s narrative—that Pretti “approached” officers with a handgun and “violently resisted”—was directly contradicted by bystander footage. Pretti’s gun was recovered only after he was already subdued, and he never drew it. Yet, DHS and Trump allies, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, labeled him a “domestic terrorist” and claimed to know his motive: “to inflict maximum damage.”

Democrats, Republicans, and even gun rights groups expressed outrage. Senator Bill Cassidy called for a

“full joint federal and state investigation,”

warning,

“The credibility of ICE and DHS is at stake.”

Polls show most voters believe ICE has “gone too far,” and even some administration officials began to backtrack, with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche admitting,

“I do not know, and nobody else knows, either. That’s why we’re doing an investigation.”

So who’s really on trial here—the victim, the agents, or the narrative itself?

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