2025-12-06
43 分钟The timing couldn't be worse.
The war in Ukraine has been dragging on for nearly four long years.
America and Russia are banding a peace plan that Ukraine had little part in composing.
And now the president's closest confidant is in the headlines, for all the wrong reasons.
And that's just one part of the giant crisis now engulfing the country.
Ukraine's history of corruption is long and torrid.
When Volodymyr Zelensky was elected in 2019,
he campaigned as an anti-establishment figure who promised to root out fraud.
Things did seem to be getting better.
But now, detectives have unearthed the biggest corruption scandal in Ukraine's history.
Today, we're going to track that scandal and that of Operation Midas,
the multi-agency probe into how $100 million, probably more,
was stolen from a country at war by its own elite.
This story has everything.
Crazy codenames like Che Guevara, Alibaba and Rocket.
It has bribes, bugs, spy cams and luxury villas.
And like all good oligarch dramas, it has a golden toilet.
It might be salacious, but for the bigger picture.
An existential war in Europe, a president who will not bend,
government bodies that fear being branded traitors if they act, and traitors if they don't.