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Once sworn in is Trump going to seriously move to try and "get along with Russia" as he indicated repeatedly during his campaign run?

But the group of people most worried about this are probably not in Washington but in Kiev. The problem for Ukraine's post-Maidan government is two-fold.

In such a world Kiev's post-Maidan move to the right, its embrace of intolerant and historically tainted nationalism and refusal to negotiate with its regions in rebellion may very well appear a very serious miscalculation [...]

So really the danger of Kiev's isolation in Trump's new order also represents an opportunity for the Ukrainian people. An opportunity to throw out the bandits in government, resolve their differences peacefully, and restore economic ties to Russia.

So really the danger of Kiev's isolation in Trump's new order also represents an opportunity for the Ukrainian people. An opportunity to throw out the bandits in government, resolve their differences peacefully, and restore economic ties to Russia.

Operation “Liquidation”: Who stands to gain from liquidation of Ukrainian banks?

Over the last one and a half year, “bankfall” has destroyed one third of the financial organizations in Ukraine, but the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) assures: everything is proceeding according to a plan!

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“Banks are being liquidated with the only goal to rob its assets,” says Alexander Okhrimenko, the President of the Ukrainian Analytical Center. “Here is what they do. At first, the NBU appoints a curator who controls the bank’s activity for a period of six month. And within these six months, the bank goes down the tube and its assets are stolen. Afterwards, a provisional administration is appointed at the bank to rob what has not been robbed before. For instance, in the case of Delta Bank, assets shrank from 35 billion UAH to 17 billion UAH – they werestealing like mad! And when it is time to liquidate the bank, it turns out that there is nothing to sell - everything is ransacked! ”

According to the MP, leading the destruction of the Ukrainian banking system are NBU chief Valeria Hontareva and director of the Deposit Guarantee Fund Kostyantyn Vorushylin, who are “business partners of president Petro Poroshenko and are working under his leadership.”

“There is no doubt that President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko is leading the shadow destruction of the Ukrainian banking system,” Yulia Tymoshenko said.

The politician believes there are several obvious consequences of the undermining of the Ukrainian banking system. The first is that the middle class has lost 450 billion hryvnias in liquidated banks, which amounts to half of the state budget.

“The liquidation of the Ukrainian banking system is simultaneously liquidating the Ukrainian middle class,” she said.

The parliamentarian added that high inflation was used to destroy Ukrainian banks by making it impossible for small and medium businesses to repay loans.

“The interest on loans is so high that Ukrainian businesses can’t afford to repay them. This means the entire Ukrainian economy was left without financial circulation, and today the Ukrainian economy is being cleaned out along with the banking system,” Yulia Tymoshenko said.

She noted that a direct result of the destruction of Ukrainian banks has been the growth in share of private Russians banks in the Ukrainian banking system from 12% to 41%.

The tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, in Uman, Ukraine, was reportedly defaced with fake blood, and a pig’s head with a swastika carved onto it on Tuesday evening, December 20.

Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko has pardoned nine of the 15 prisoners Kiev promised to hand over to the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics (DPR, LPR) before the end of the year, Ukraine’s envoy to the Contact Group’s humanitarian subgroup, Irina Gerashchenko, said on Thursday.

"The work of the humanitarian subgroup in Minsk yesterday was dedicated entirely to this," Gerashchenko noted, adding that a video conference on the issue could be held on Friday.

"We strongly disagree with some of our partners when they come up with the claims Moscow should make some moves towards the objectives of the Minsk accords, since Moscow isn’t a party to the conflict and it’s a duty for Donbass and Kiev to fulfill (provisions of) the accords," he [Peskov] said.