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‘Self-appointed
advocate of new Ukraine’: Soros emails leaked by anti-Kiev hackers
RT,
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June, 2015
George
Soros advocates EU financial aid and military assistance to Ukraine
to restore Kiev’s fighting capacity without violating the Minsk
peace deal, claim anti-Kiev hackers citing leaked emails between the
billionaire and Ukraine’s president.
The
hacking group CyberBerkut claims it has penetrated Ukraine’s
presidential administration website and obtained correspondence
between Soros and Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko.
The
hacktivists have published three files online, which include a draft
of “A
short and medium term comprehensive strategy for the new Ukraine”
by Soros (dated March 12, 2015); an undated paper
on military assistance to
Kiev; and the billionaire’s
letter to
Poroshenko and Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk, dated
December 23, 2014.
According
to the leaked documents, Soros supports Barack Obama’s stance on
Ukraine, but believes that the US should do even more.
He
is confident that the US should provide Ukraine with lethal military
assistance, “with
same level of sophistication in defense weapons to match the level of
opposing force.”
“In
poker terms, the US will ‘meet, but not raise,” the
84-year-old businessman explained, supposedly signing one of the
letters as “a self-appointed advocate of the new Ukraine.”
The
Western backers want Kiev to “restore
the fighting capacity of Ukraine without violating the Minsk
agreement,” Soros
wrote.
Retired
US general Wesley Clark, who commanded the NATO bombing of
Yugoslavia, and Polish ex-general, Waldemar Skrzypczak, will be among
those advising Poroshenko on how to fulfil this task, he added.
In
mid-February, after a year of fighting, Kiev and rebels from the
self-proclaimed People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk signed a
peace deal calling for a ceasefire, heavy weapons withdrawal, and
prisoner exchanges between the sides.
Among
other things, the leaked documents claim that the Ukrainian
authorities were also asked to“restore
some semblance of currency stability and functioning banking
system” and “maintain
unity among the various branches of government” in
order to receive assistance from foreign allies.
Soros
believes that it’s up to the EU to support Kiev with financial aid,
stressing that “Europe must reach a new framework agreement that
will allow the European Commission to allocate up to $1 billion
annually to Ukraine.”
As
for the current state of economy, the billionaire wrote that former
Chilean finance minister, Andres Velasco, after visiting Ukraine on
his request, returned with “a
dire view of financial situation."
“The
new Ukraine is literally on the verge of collapse” due
to the national bank’s lack of hard currency reserves, Soros warned
Poroshenko.
The
correspondence shows that the billionaire has been in constant touch
with the authorities in Kiev and consulting them.
Soros
has been involved in Ukraine since 1989, when he founded the
Ukrainian International Renaissance Foundation (IRF) that provided
more than $100 million to Ukrainian NGOs two years before the fall of
the Soviet Union.
The
billionaire is connected to several non-governmental organizations in
Ukraine that advocate closer ties to the EU and aided the EuroMaidan
movement that toppled Viktor Yanukovich’s government last February.
In
March, he criticized the EU for paying too much attention to Greece’s
economic problems and promised to invest $1 billion of his own money
in Ukraine.
Soros
is the 30th richest person in the world, according to Forbes’
ranking, and had a personal fortune of $19 billion as of March 2013.
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