His trophy, the immense wealth he had acquired by dubious means, found a safe haven.
Under Zelenskyi’s agreement with the United Arab Emirates, which he has just concluded, the essentials are confidential. As Ukraine falls apart, he and his closest cronies can quietly move billions in stolen money from US and EU taxpayers to a safe haven in good time. The agreement stipulates that they can, for example, buy companies there, some up to 70%, others up to 100%, or transfer their money elsewhere. In Dubai and Abu Dhabi, dream cities known for their luxury, they can also buy villas with every conceivable luxury.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr (birth name Vladimir) Zelensky with his counterpart from the United Arab
Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, February 17, 2025. He was accompanied by his wife, who is known for her shopping trips for expensive luxury products in Paris and London. — Image from Volodymyr Selensky’s official X account
Perhaps the future political refugee Zelenskyi will also buy himself an armored luxury limousine for the super-rich in Dubai.

(Limousine in Dubai; photo Felix Abt)
In view of the countless Ukrainian families who have lost their fathers and sons in Zelenskyi’s senseless war and will not forgive him for it, this purchase could make perfect sense for him
One paragraph of the agreement calls for the “protection of personal data” so that taxpayers never know where their hard-earned tax money has ended up.
Takeaway: it pays off when an actor who became president because he promised voters peace in the country whose regime came to power in 2014 thanks to a US-sponsored coup and has been waging war against the Russian-speaking population in the Donbass ever since, becomes a warmonger himself and then a war profiteer. The many hundreds of thousands of dead in the avoidable war remain just a “quantité négligeable” for him, and the entire responsibility lies with the other side anyway, if you believe Selenkyi’s mainstream media partners.
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