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Russian ex-minister: Ukraine invasion is stalling bc officials embezzled from the military budget
"former foreign minister Kozyrev laid out reasons Putin may have misjudged his invasion, claiming Putin had overestimated Russia's military, not realizing its budget had been embezzled"
Russian ex-minister says invasion of Ukraine is stalling because officials stole from military budget for 'mega-yachts in Cyprus'
*Andrey Kozyrev, a former foreign minister, laid out reasons Putin may have misjudged his invasion.
*He claimed Putin had overestimated Russia's military, not realizing its budget had been embezzled.
*Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been met with tough Ukrainian resistance.
A former Russian foreign minister claimed that widespread corruption was among the reasons for the Russian military's apparently poor performance in the invasion of Ukraine.
In a Twitter thread over the weekend, Andrey Kozyrev, who served as the foreign minister under President Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s, put forward what he said were misjudgments by President Vladimir Putin in ordering the invasion.
He suggested Putin had overestimated the Russian military — while Putin has dedicated billions of dollars to modernizing Russia's forces, this money, Kozyrev claimed, may have been lost to endemic corruption.
"The Kremlin spent the last 20 years trying to modernize its military. Much of that budget was stolen and spent on mega-yachts in Cyprus. But as a military advisor you cannot report that to the President. So they reported lies to him instead," Kozyrev wrote.
Cyprus has long been a favored destination for Russian officials seeking to launder money, and it was infamous for its "golden passport" scheme that until 2020 allowed rich foreigners to effectively buy European Union citizenship.
More: https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-ex-fm-kozyrev-miitary-failing-budget-spent-yachts-2022-3?r=AU&IR=T
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Russian ex-minister says invasion of Ukraine is stalling because officials stole from military budget for 'mega-yachts in Cyprus'
*Andrey Kozyrev, a former foreign minister, laid out reasons Putin may have misjudged his invasion.
*He claimed Putin had overestimated Russia's military, not realizing its budget had been embezzled.
*Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been met with tough Ukrainian resistance.
A former Russian foreign minister claimed that widespread corruption was among the reasons for the Russian military's apparently poor performance in the invasion of Ukraine.
In a Twitter thread over the weekend, Andrey Kozyrev, who served as the foreign minister under President Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s, put forward what he said were misjudgments by President Vladimir Putin in ordering the invasion.
He suggested Putin had overestimated the Russian military — while Putin has dedicated billions of dollars to modernizing Russia's forces, this money, Kozyrev claimed, may have been lost to endemic corruption.
"The Kremlin spent the last 20 years trying to modernize its military. Much of that budget was stolen and spent on mega-yachts in Cyprus. But as a military advisor you cannot report that to the President. So they reported lies to him instead," Kozyrev wrote.
Cyprus has long been a favored destination for Russian officials seeking to launder money, and it was infamous for its "golden passport" scheme that until 2020 allowed rich foreigners to effectively buy European Union citizenship.
More: https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-ex-fm-kozyrev-miitary-failing-budget-spent-yachts-2022-3?r=AU&IR=T
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Well, this just proves that there's no honor among thieves. 
Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel.
Here's to hoping.
Who's going to work for you, except other scumbags? 
They start out loving him for the racism and cruelty, then wake up one day in an autocracy with a looted national treasury and a depleted military.
