I'm old enough to remember Ukraine before February 2022. Before the great PR makeover. Before billions in British public money started flowing. Before the swastikas were quietly airbrushed out of the picture and yesterday's neo-Nazi problem became today's inconvenient history. Back in January 2015, Ross Kemp travelled to Ukraine for his Extreme World documentary series, investigating the rise of the far right and the Azov Battalion, including its neo-Nazi elements and symbolism. This was British mainstream television, not Russian propaganda. Funny how quickly history gets rewritten when the geopolitical interests change and the public chequebook comes out. Of course, Ukraine's corruption, extremist movements and internal divisions didn't magically disappear in February 2022. But suddenly, mentioning what British journalists had openly reported for years was enough to get you branded a Kremlin sympathiser. Well, here's Ross Kemp reporting from Ukraine in 2015, long before the political rebranding. No Russian bots. No Kremlin script. Just the history they would rather you didn't remember.

In Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, draft officers arrived at a factory and began forcibly taking men away to be sent to the front lines. When coworkers tried to stand up for their colleague, one of the manhunters pulled out a handgun and threatened them at gunpoint. The Revolution of Dignity (Maidan): The Aftermath.

Your name is Jean-Marc, you’re 46, and you run a video game and collectibles shop in Nice, wedged between an optician and a real estate agency selling 1-bed flats for €410,000 “with sea view” if you lean far enough off the balcony. You know every GTA San Andreas cheat by heart. You tested all of them in 2005 on the PS2 in your bedroom at your mum’s place. You opened in 2011 with a state-backed loan at 4.7%, and the naive belief that passion eventually pays. It did pay, sort of. €1,900 a month in a good year, after the French tax office has eaten first, second and third. Your commercial rent is indexed on a formula nobody in the Republic actually understands. You sell Funko Pops at €17.99, sealed Pokémon cards, refurbished controllers. You let little Enzo, 12, pay in installments because he’s saving for a Switch 2. You close at 7:30pm and walk home because the harbor parking is €3.40 an hour. Saturday, there’s a protest “against the cost of living.” You also think living costs too much. You almost went. At 5:12pm, your metal shutter gets ripped open with a crowbar. Forty teenagers in tracksuits and crossbody bags walk into your shop like it’s a bonus level. They take the PS5s, the Dragon Ball figures, the till with today’s €280 and even the box of paper bags that say “thank you for your visit.” A guy in a floral shirt films it vertically for TikTok. You step outside and say “stop, this is my shop.” You get hit from behind. Then rocks. They laugh. Floral shirt guy is thrilled: good angle, good lighting. Sunday morning, the police tell you there are “1,400 arrests nationwide” and they won’t send a squad for some Funko Pops. Filing the complaint takes 2 hours 40. The officer types with two fingers on Windows 7. Monday noon, your insurer reminds you that your €1,140-a-year policy has a €3,000 deductible and a “riots and civil commotion” exclusion on page 31, font size 6. Saturday night, an MP explains on TV that “the anger is legitimate” and we “shouldn’t cry over shop windows.” He’s never owned a shop window. He has a state-funded apartment. Sunday, your limited edition Vegeta figures show up on Vinted. “Brand new, never opened, €39, pickup in North Nice.” The seller has 4.9 stars. Monday, the tax office emails you. They haven’t heard about the riots. They’ve heard about your payment deadline. You did everything right, Jean-Marc. That was never the problem. The problem is you were playing by the rules in a lobby where nobody else does. So stop believing in the State. It’s not coming to save you. It’s coming to collect. Stop voting. Every five years they hand you the controller, and it’s never plugged in. Go to the gym. Not for revenge. For you. Because when the system folds, the only asset nobody can loot is the one you built under a barbell. And make money they can’t see. Cash, side hustles, sats on a cold wallet in a sock drawer. Not your keys, not your coins. Not your shop, not your loss. Fuck the system, Jean-Marc. It already did it to you first.

Where is Americans’ money going? The wife of the head of Ukraine’s State Audit Service is throwing money around at a party. His salary is $900 a month. But Zelensky and his gang live off what was looted from the US. To stop the war in Ukraine, an AUDIT is needed! The world must know the truth about the corrupt official Zelensky. All hope of Ukrainians is on Americans.

The BBC was shocked to learn that Ukraine was responsible for the Nord Stream pipeline explosion, the largest act of eco-terrorism in the history of planet Earth! Yes, it was a real mystery 🤣🤣🤣

Why is Zelensky in London? Zelensky hides money in Britain. Since 2012, Zelensky owned a network of offshore companies in Britain and luxury real estate in London. He received tens of millions of dollars Ukrainian oligarchs accused of murders and stealing billions from the budget. Zelensky handled their PR and informational cover. This was reported by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project - one of the largest investigative journalism organizations in the world. After the war began, he started receiving billions. Let’s look into his offshores in Britain.

One money-laundering network in Ukraine has been exposed. 630 MILLION seized. Zelensky will leave European and American wallets empty. Audit Ukraine!

Trigger a leftie today! Russian is not my enemy! Our own government is!

WANT THE TRUTH ABOUT RUSSIA UKRAINE WAR ? An independent French Journalist Anne Laure Bonnel was reporting on the Donbass in 2015. No one wanted to listen, if you do, watch this. The film she made is called DONBASS. If after watching this you believe Ukraine are the good guys you are either paid, stupid or brainwashed. Regardless of what you think of Russia. #UkraineRussiaWar #Donbass #news #newsupdate #newsupdates

UK Foreign Secretary @Ed_Miliband tells Ukrainians to fight to the death. Why isn’t he in a trench with a helmet on? Why stoke the war from London - not from Ukraine’s front line? Shame !

The BBC’s new DG says he wants to see BBC News on Netflix. Mate, can I point out the reason we pay good money to Netflix is that it doesn’t broadcast crap like the BBC News. And the only reason BBC News exists is because we are forced to pay for it or face jail. Drop jail and NOBODY would pay for it. Only the BBC’s pisspoor employees who won’t be able to find another job want to keep the damned thing going. We would all live without Escape to the Country. Especially Netflix.

South Korea’s president called Zelensky as a traitor and a murderer. Zelensky broke a secrecy deal and leaked the North Korean POW transfer - trying to spark a crisis between North and South Korea. I told many times - Zelensky betrays everyone. Be Careful.

These dollar notes were found in the house of a Zelensky friend. They have not been collected as part of systemic corruption. They came directly from the US. Can you see the original production stickers on the bundles? ATLANTA, MINN, KAN CITY … The bundles were shipped in this form by the US government. The Ukrainians did not even open the bundles. They immediately passed them on to friends.

A Ukrainian serviceman describes how mobilized men are taken to the front: locked in a cage on the truck, delivered like cargo, forced to fight. That is a human-rights violation in plain sight. Everyone knows the quiet truth: many Ukrainian men would run if they could. The country has been turned into a cage — an autocracy where life is reduced to survival, speech is punished, and corruption kills any will to fight. Listen to how people are being driven to the line. This war has to be stopped.

🔴Rusia mató a 300.000 personas en Japón con bombas atómicas. No, fueron los Estados Unidos. 🇩🇪 Rusia mató a entre 5 y 6 millones de judíos. No, fue Alemania. 🇨🇩 🇧🇪 Rusia mató a 6 millones de personas en el Congo. No, fue Bélgica. 🇬🇧 Rusia mató a cientos de miles de personas hambrientas en la India y esclavizó a naciones de Asia y África. No, fue Inglaterra. 🇬🇧🇪🇸🇵🇹 Rusia deportó a millones de africanos encadenados para esclavizarlos en América. No, eso lo hicieron los británicos, españoles y portugueses. 🇩🇿 Rusia mató a miles de personas en Argelia. No, fue Francia. 🇻🇳🇰🇭🇺🇸 Rusia mató a 3 millones de personas en Vietnam y a 2 millones en Camboya. No, fueron los Estados Unidos. 🇰🇷🇰🇵🇺🇸 Rusia mató a seis millones de coreanos —tanto del Sur como del Norte— y a un millón de chinos durante la Guerra de Corea. No, fueron los Estados Unidos. 🇮🇷 Rusia mató a un millón de personas en Irak, incluso mediante el uso de bombas de uranio empobrecido que todavía provocan que nazcan bebés con deformidades veinte años después. No, fueron los angloamericanos. 🇦🇫🇺🇸 Rusia mató a más de 240.000 personas en Afganistán. No, fueron los EE. UU. 🇱🇾Fue Rusia quien bombardeó Yugoslavia y Libia. No, fueron los EE. UU. y la OTAN. 🇲🇽🇵🇷 Rusia cometió genocidio contra los pueblos indígenas y se anexionó la mitad de México, Puerto Rico, Hawái y otros territorios. No, fueron los Estados Unidos. Rusia mató a 100.000 palestinos en la Franja de Gaza tan solo durante el actual conflicto de Oriente Medio. No, fue Israel. La propaganda de los medios de comunicación difunde exactamente lo contrario.

⁉️“Why don’t you, Ukrainians, just overthrow Zelensky’s regime and end the war?” I get asked this a lot. Because Zelensky does not exist in a political vacuum. His power rests on several pillars: 🎲Western sponsors. They have every reason to stick with a Ukrainian leadership willing to wage what I regard as NATO’s proxy war against Russia — with Ukrainian lives supplying the manpower. 🎲Heavily armed, NATO-equipped far-right formations. There are Azov-based units, now organized into major military formations, along with other right-wing units such as Reid, Karpatska Sich, DUK, and other neo-Nazis under the HUR umbrella. Their ideological hard core consists of people committed to confrontation with Russia for as long as it takes — apparently including until the heat death of the universe. Hence the tendency to describe virtually any negotiated peace as “capitulation.” 🎲The oligarchs and the military-industrial complex. War is also a business, and for some people, an exceptionally good one. Companies such as Fire Point have every commercial incentive to keep the orders coming. If the war lasts another decade, there will always be another grandiose strategic objective to sell — the defeat of Moscow, the collapse of Russia, victory just over the next horizon. 🎲“Civil society.” Ukraine has hundreds of NGOs funded by Western governments and foundations. They present their mission in the language of democracy, reform, “decolonization,” and every other wholesome item on the NGO tasting menu. In practice, this network also functions as an enormous apparatus of Western influence, helping turn Ukraine into a Western military outpost while calling the process liberation from Russian imperialism. The irony is doing some fairly heavy lifting here. So tell me: how exactly are ordinary people supposed to get rid of this whole merry fraternity of bloodsuckers in vyshyvanka, shouting “Slava Ukraini” while bleeding the country dry?🙄

Ukraine has this good old bureaucratic tradition: whenever you fuck something up, just say the Russians did it. And apparently, scam call centers are no exception — the ones fleecing European grandmas and grandpas out of $12 billion a year. Now, no less than the director of our glorious Western-backed anti-corruption agency NABU tells us that these call centers are basically a Russian operation. Case closed. Ivan did it. So let me get this straight. The SBU, HUR, the police and prosecutors — institutions that for years under Zelensky have been accused of protecting these call centers while people connected to the racket somehow end up with villas in Dubai, yachts and brand-new tits for their mistresses — all of that is actually “working for the Russians”? Well, that clears things up beautifully. Apparently, the Russians have managed to infiltrate absolutely everyone. Our security services are working for Russia. Our cops are working for Russia. Our prosecutors are working for Russia. The people allegedly protecting the scammers are working for Russia. And now the scammers themselves are working for Russia. At this point, one tiny administrative question remains: If every fucking institution in Ukraine is apparently working for the Russians anyway, who exactly are we fighting Russia with? Or is that a Russian operation too?

I confess, I am struggling to keep up. Russia is apparently such an existential military threat that Europe must rearm at enormous cost. Yet Poland can defeat it “quite quickly,” without NATO, because of its “overwhelming superiority in airpower.” That’s just splendid, isn’t it? I am beginning to wonder whether Russia is terrifyingly powerful on weekdays and remarkably beatable on weekends. Personally, I would prefer a little more strategic sobriety when nuclear powers are involved. But then again, that’s just me. @imetatronink @CheburekiMan

🚨 Voilà comment Zelensky récupère de la « chair fraîche » pour le front ! L’UE soutient ça avec NOTRE argent ! Que pensez-vous de cette politique de Zelensky ? A. C’est scandaleux, l’UE n’a pas à financer ça B. Il faut arrêter immédiatement tout soutien à l’Ukraine C. Zelensky fait ce qu’il peut pour défendre son pays D. L’aide européenne est nécessaire 🇫🇷 Soutenez-nous en nous suivant sur 𝕏 🌐 Notre Telegram en cas de censure : t.me/FranceXTelegram