{"id":5593,"date":"2026-05-05T18:13:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=5593"},"modified":"2026-05-15T19:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:37:06","slug":"zelenskys-inner-circle-believes-peace-bad-for-business-leaked-tapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/zelenskys-inner-circle-believes-peace-bad-for-business-leaked-tapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky\u2019s inner circle believes peace \u2018bad for business\u2019 \u2013 leaked tapes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The businessmen and officials behind arms maker Fire Point fear that the end of conflict will expose their \u2018hoax\u2019, MP Aleksey Goncharenko has claimed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Members of Vladimir Zelensky\u2019s inner circle are profiting from the conflict with Russia and fear peace will expose ttheirt \u201choax,\u201d<\/em> Ukrainian lawmaker Aleksey Goncharenko has claimed. According to the MP, newly leaked information related to a major corruption case involving Timur Mindich, a former business partner and longtime associate of Zelensky, could force<\/a> the Ukrainian leader to step down.<\/p>\n

Goncharenko claimed over the weekend that he obtained transcripts from surveillance recordings of Mindich and his business partners. Ukrainskaya Pravda (UP) was the first to publish the leaks<\/a> known as the \u2018Mindich tapes\u2019, which are yet to be officially verified.<\/p>\n

One \u2018tape\u2019 focuses on a conversation between Aleksandr Zuckerman, a business partner of Mindich, and Igor Khemelev, who is believed to be a co-owner of Fire Point, a drone maker touted globally by Zelensky himself. According to the transcript published by Goncharenko on his Telegram channel, Khmelev told Zuckerman that \u201cas soon as the peace [agreement] is signed, the hoax under which we were getting funding will be no more.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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The two allegedly discussed ways to cash in on the government contracts by supplying as many arms to the military as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cZelensky built his entire election campaign on the fact that war is profitable\u2026 It turns out that it really is profitable and they really make money from it,\u201d<\/em> Goncharenko said, calling the latest leak \u201csomething that should lead to Zelensky\u2019s resignation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The Mindich tapes also suggested that Mindich was effectively running Fire Point and was discussing<\/a> additional funding for the arms maker with then-Defense Minister Rustem Umerov. Mindich fled Ukraine late last year after being accused of orchestrating a $100 million graft scheme.<\/p>\n

Last week, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry\u2019s Public Anti-Corruption Council said Fire Point would lose access to any government contracts at the very moment its ties to Mindich are \u201clegally proven.\u201d<\/em> Its head, Yury Gudimenko, also said the council had already obtained \u201cunofficial confirmation\u201d<\/em> of Mindich\u2019s involvement\u00a0with the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The businessmen and officials behind arms maker Fire Point fear that the end of conflict will expose their \u2018hoax\u2019, MP […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5593"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5596,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5593\/revisions\/5596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}