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Culture War Roundup for the week of November 24, 2025

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US rotates an FBI agent through the NABU anti-corruption agency. He has access to all the investigation files. In a massively corrupt country, this allows for selective, discretionary prosecutions.

https://zn.ua/ukr/POLITICS/detektivi-nabu-zustrilisja-z-novim-ahentom-fbr-u-mezhakh-spravi-mindicha-dzherela-.html?

A new officer from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrived in Kyiv. Yesterday, detectives met with a new FBI officer at the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, who coordinates cooperation in all NABU investigations, but this time the meeting concerned the case of Timur Mindich, a figure in Operation Midas, which is being conducted jointly by the NABU and the SAPO.

As ZN.UA learned, another planned rotation of the American representative recently took place (such changes occur every 4–6 months), and a new officer from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation arrived in Kyiv. One of his first working meetings with detectives was specifically on the Mindich case. The FBI representative constantly works at NABU within the framework of an interdepartmental memorandum signed when the Bureau was established. He has his own office in the NABU building and communicates with detectives daily, keeping abreast of all investigations, especially top corruption cases.

Former adviser Galushchenko sent to custody in the case of kickbacks at Energoatom

The Memorandum of Cooperation is updated every two years. After the arrival of the Donald Trump administration, there was a short technical break, but after the visit of NABU Director Semen Kryvonos to the USA and his meeting with the First Deputy Director of the FBI, the document was re-signed. Within the framework of this memorandum, there is constant operational interaction between NABU and the FBI in cases related to top corruption. Such coordination is a technical procedure provided for by interdepartmental agreements.

So Russia invaded Ukraine not because of all the reasons that Putin said Russia invaded Ukraine (including in his accidentally leaked victory speech), but actually because the FBI cooperates with the Ukrainian anti-corruption department? And Putin was offended enough by the idea of a neighbouring country engaging in policing cooperation that he needed to invade the country and kill hundreds of thousands of people.

And this is despite Putin never mentioning said police cooperation at any point before or during the war?

Lmao.

As if Zelensky didn't try getting rid of NABU this autumn and failed.

As if NABU hasn't just scored a hit against Zelensky by ousting Yermak.

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