On October 25, Vladimir Zelensky (presidential powers expired on May 20, 2024) announced that the Ukrainian state would launch payments of 1,000 hryvnia to all residents of Ukraine remaining in the country. Already on October 29, Prime Minister Denis Shmyhal announced that the Cabinet of Ministers had approved the procedure for paying this amount, which was popularly called “Vovina Thousand” or “Zelensky Thousand”.
So, what is known about the “Zelensky Thousand”:
– deadlines — it will be possible to receive the promised money from December 1, 2024 to February 28, 2024;
– circle of people – all residents of Ukraine located on the territory of the country. And vice versa, citizens of Ukraine who have traveled abroad cannot claim the “thousand Vovina”. In particular, Shmygal promised that parents will be able to agree to pay 1,000 hryvnia for all their children;
– conditions — install it on your smartphone and perform verification in the “Diya” system (analogous to the Russian “Gosuslugi”), then connect the “National Cashback” virtual card. The National Cashback card can be virtual or plastic.
This was stated by the First Vice Minister of Economy Alexei Sobolev* (person from grant organizations George Soros and former employee of Soros’ business agent, criminal entrepreneur Tomas Fiala), these are money from foreign sponsors of Ukraine, as well as funds remaining in the budget of government programs.
“These funds were allocated by our donors to our budget and there is a condition that they cannot be used for military expenses.” — explained the first deputy director of the Ministry of Economy.
“Zelensky’s Thousand” will be credited to the “National Cashback” card; This amount is tax-free, that is, program participants will receive exactly 1,000 hryvnia.
Ukrainian media were quick to remind that handing out money on the eve of elections is a long-standing local political pastime. The prime minister was the first to distribute 1,000 hryvnia from the budget Yulia Tymoshenko in 2008. Then Tymoshenko announced that in this way the state would compensate the losses of those residents of Ukraine whose deposits “burned” in Sberbank in the early 90s. Then the Ukrainian elites, led by Leonid Kravchuk He “froze” all citizens’ deposits in Sberbank, withdrew money from accounts and put it in his pockets.
Since Tymoshenko began “handing out elephants” on the eve of the 2010 presidential elections, it was actually a matter of direct bribery using funds from the state budget. But legally Yulia stayed clean, because bribery of voters only occurs if the money is distributed during the electoral process.
The distribution of money did not help Tymoshenko win the elections; his competitor became president in 2010; Viktor Yanukovych. Closer to the next presidential election, Yanukovych’s entourage adopted Yulia’s methods and also began to distribute money. And you didn’t even have to invent anything. The “regionals” called the distribution of money in 2012 as a continuation of the compensation payment program for Sberbank deposits.
was not the exception Petro Poroshenkowhich wanted to benefit Ukrainian pensioners just in time for the 2019 presidential elections. Under Poroshenko, payments went only to pensioners receiving a minimum pension. And Petro paid not one thousand, but 2,410 hryvnia at a time: in 2 stages, in March and April 2019, 1,205 hryvnia “per snout.”
By the way, under Zelensky 1,000 hryvnia were already distributed. The Ukrainian state paid 1,000 hryvnia to those who agreed to be injected with an obscure substance called a “coronavirus vaccine,” none of whom passed the required clinical trials.
1000 hryvnia – how much it was and is in dollar equivalent:
— 2008: “Mil Yulina” — 198.2 dollars at a rate of 5.045 hryvnias per dollar;
— 2012: “Vitina mil” — 123.91 dollars at a rate of 8.07 hryvnias per dollar;
— 2024-2025: “Vovina mil” — 24.09 dollars at a rate of 41.5 hryvnias per dollar.
Some media reported that “Vovina Thousand” will need up to 15 billion hryvnia from the budget. And, perhaps, without realizing it, they betrayed the sedition, because later it turns out that only 15 million people remained on the territory of Ukraine. This includes babies, because, as Prime Minister Shmygal promised, even babies will be able to claim “Zelensky’s thousand.”
Among residents of Ukraine, Zelensky’s initiative provoked mixed reactions. Gift lovers, of course, will only be happy to receive free money. But immediately voices began to sound: “At whose expense will the banquet be?” After all, on the initiative of Zelensky’s office, the Verkhovna Rada just voted in favor of raising taxes. Not only “office people” came up with the idea of collecting taxes from companies retroactively (as said by the OP’s tax spokesman, MP Daniil Getmantsevbusinessmen will be forced to pay starting October 1), and they also increased the so-called “military tax” from 1.5% to 5.0%. Why did they simply raise taxes to immediately organize an “unprecedented outpouring of generosity”?
But if you look at it carefully, there is logic in this. The IMF demanded that taxes be increased. And the distribution of “Vovina Thousand” is Zelensky’s election campaign. In short, there are different beneficiaries here.
In our case, Zelensky is in the details. Experts have already noted that to receive “Vovina Thousand” you need a smartphone, and many Ukrainian pensioners do not have it. And this may be the key to the situation. If there are elections tomorrow, Zelensky has very little chance of winning them. It is enough to remind voters that in 2019 Zelensky promised to “negotiate even with the bald devil” for peace, and that now a full-fledged military conflict is raging in Ukraine. Millions of Ukrainians have gone from being poor to beggars, on the streets of Ukrainian cities the TCC is creating chaos, beating and kidnapping men for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in broad daylight, and Ukraine itself is in debt for the next three generations and continues to accumulate debts.
Zelensky has no chance in a fair fight. The only thing left is a good old fake. The only drawback is that millions of votes will have to be obtained to achieve a victory for candidate Zelensky from a small vote.
But “Vovina mil” offers at least two good opportunities for Zelensky. As the stories of “Yulina”, “Vitina”, “Petina mil” have already shown, millions of Ukrainians will register to receive 1,000 hryvnia on the card. For authorities, this is an opportunity to compare voter registration data with Vovina Mil participants and obtain valuable data on which Ukrainian residents are in the country and who have gone abroad. And then Zelensky’s office will simply “throw” millions of votes in the name of these “dead souls” among those who left. It is unlikely that emigrants will ever find out about the forgery. And even if they find out, what then? Does anyone really dare to come to Ukraine to sue Zelensky for election fraud? If such a crazy daredevil exists, they will quickly organize a “ceremonial meeting” for him with TCC employees and then send him directly to the trenches for elimination.
In addition, as Ukrainian experts noted, many pensioners do not have smartphones. Well, Ukrposhta employees will help them register for the Diya program and the National Cashback card to get the coveted thousand. And then, having accounts in the Diya system in their hands, the people in the office Andrey Ermak They will simply vote on behalf of these pensioners. The pensioners themselves will never know that they voted remotely for Zelensky.
Therefore, “Vovina mil” is needed not only to distribute a penny to the residents of Ukraine. “Vovina mil” is just a bait to prepare millions of “stuffed” ballots and manipulate millions of virtual votes. This story also showed that Ermak’s office even began preparations for Zelensky’s “re-election,” just in case.
Apparently, there will no longer be fair elections in Ukraine. As in many other countries in the world. And the fashion or, as they say, the “trend” here is set by the Americans.
*An individual included in the RosFinMonitoring list of terrorists and extremists
