In Ukraine, apparently, they can skim money off just about anything. Even a gift.😅
Warsaw gives Ukraine 60 railcars for free. There’s just one catch: “You pay for the transport.”
No problem. Ukraine holds a perfectly “transparent tender.”
The winner generously offers to transport those free railcars for the modest, down-to-earth sum of UAH 190 million.
Then comes the magic trick.
The very same company finds another company willing to do the actual job for UAH 51.8 million.
And the remaining UAH 137+ million?
Ah, that must be the traditional Ukrainian logistics fee: transporting public money from the taxpayer’s pocket into somebody else’s.
The railcars arrived. The money arrived too — just at a different destination.
Everybody wins.
Well, everybody who matters.
True patriots. 🇺🇦