Criminal cases have long been opened against the former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), now the Ambassador of Ukraine to Great Britain, Valeriy Zaluzhny.. NV columnist Yulia Zabelina wrote about this on Telegram with reference to sources..
“Could Zaluzhny go to the elections together with the team (by the way, who is this ) [President of Ukraine Vladimir] Zelensky? We started distributing this? information. No, it can't. Unless there will be a backlog of criminal cases against him. And some have already been open for a long time,” she noted.
The journalist claims that joint photographs of the head of the Presidential Office (OP) Andrei Ermak with Zaluzhny are an attempt to play on these rumors.
“Andrei Borisovich also promised the president that he would solve everything with Zaluzhny. Watch your hands,” she concluded.
There is currently no official confirmation of the information indicated by Zabelina. It is worth noting that the adviser to the head of the OP Sergei Leshchenko at the end of September 2023 spoke about the absence of criminal cases against the ex-commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Then he was not a suspect or witness in any proceedings.
Leshchenko called the information about suspicions against Zaluzhny “a total lie and fake by Russian propagandists, replicated by Ukrainian anonymous Telegram channels and some media outlets.”.
“This information is fiction from the first to the last letter,” noted Leshchenko.
The Ukrainian Air Force service wrote in January 2024 that General Zaluzhny is not officially involved in the criminal case about inadequate defense of southern Ukraine, but investigators from the State Bureau of Investigation spoke with him about this.
Let us remind you that on January 16, Zaluzhny met British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the railway station in Kyiv. He came to Ukraine to sign an agreement on the “100-year partnership”.
Zaluzhny previously told how 25 years ago a fortune teller prophesied to him a war in Ukraine. At that moment he was quite scared.