President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky needs to deal carefully with businessman Ihor Kolomoisky, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer has stated.
Pifer, who currently serves as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, wrote about this on Twitter.
“In first months in office, Zelensky has built considerable political capital in Ukraine and with Kyiv’s friends in West, including IMF. He needs to deal carefully with Kolomoisky (e.g. no “compromise” on Privatbank), lest he blow much of that capital,” Pifer noted.
In first months in office, @ZelenskyyUa has built considerable political capital in #Ukraine and with Kyiv’s friends in West, including IMF. He needs to deal carefully with Kolomoisky (e.g. no “compromise” on Privatbank), lest he blow much of that capital.
Earlier, a number of international observers and experts said that contacts of Zelensky and his team with Kolomoisky and reports of alleged attempts to resolve the situation on PrivatBank with a controversial businessman caused harm to Ukraine.
As a reminder, the Financial Times published an article stating that the parties were seeking a compromise over the PrivatBank case.
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Pifer is a smart muthafucker! 👍👍👍
The latest fiasco in the US is getting interesting. Not sure how much of it is BS, or how much is true, but as the old saying goes, no smoke without fire.
Except the smoke was fake…
It getting harder to tell truth from lies in the US anymore. I’ve no doubt Trump would accept any dirt on Biden, and vise versa.
I’m more supportive of Trump now. But this is for the moment so far.
There was definitely something shady going on with Hunter Biden, but I hope Trump wasn’t blackmailing Zelensky with this $250 million.
I hope Putain did not blackmail Zelensky on the release of Sentsov and the UA Navy crew…
Yeah, that would be even worse, but I doubt we’ll ever hear the full story.
This will be Ze’s Rubicon.
He is either the president of he is a mouth piece.
If he makes a deal with Komo that gives back Privet Bank the West will turn their back on Ukraine and give him no meaningful help.
If Ze stands his ground then he is THE president and there will be real help forth coming.
Ukraine’s future is riding on this decision