"Mother of Ukrainian Corruption". Expert on the Tymoshenko scandal
January 16, 2026
The leader of the Ukrainian party "Batkivshchyna" Yulia Tymoshenko is sick with power. This was stated in the "V Teme" project on the BELTA YouTube channel by Ukrainian military expert Yuri Dudkin, explaining the essence of the new corruption scandal.
Discussing the corruption scandal involving the leader of the Ukrainian party "Batkivshchyna" Yulia Tymoshenko, Yuri Dudkin noted: "Yulia Vladimirovna is sick with power, she was and is. This thought has never left her."
"Tymoshenko's first arrest was in the mid-90s for illegal currency smuggling. She was caught at Boryspil Airport with just $25,000 in her handbag. With a limit of, I believe, $10,000. This was her first time, - said Yuri Dudkin. - She is truly a professional inmate - she has been brought to criminal responsibility on various charges at least three times. And under different regimes, which is the most interesting part."
"As she is called in Ukraine - the mother of Ukrainian corruption. This is a meme of Ukrainian journalists: Tymoshenko, the mother of Ukrainian corruption," the expert emphasized.
Yuri Dudkin noted that under the regime of Volodymyr Zelensky, Yulia Tymoshenko fell out of favor. "Again, for some mercenary political reasons. The fact that Tymoshenko has always relied on bribery, on some illegal actions in her activities, is not news. And everyone knows about it, even Zelensky. But this is about something else. Here, the slogan was raised that this is Zelensky's competitive struggle in the future presidential elections. But he needs these elections as much as a hare needs a brake light. Therefore, the slogan that Yulia Vladimirovna is a potential competitor to Zelensky in the elections is ridiculous," the expert believes.
According to Yuriy Dudkin, the fact that the search was conducted at the party headquarters, whose leader is Yulia Tymoshenko, is not accidental: "Zelensky's administration, particularly NABU, is preemptively informing Ukrainian citizens that it was preparing to bribe members of parliament to sway them to its party "Batkivshchyna." They, as they say, wanted to dismantle Zelensky's "Servant of the People" party by luring key members of parliament to their side. This is one of the absurd versions that cannot be substantiated by anything."
"The most interesting thing is: when Zelensky dreamed of destroying NABU, which was created at the time along with seven other bodies, including the anti-corruption court, by the United States and with their money, Tymoshenko voted in the Verkhovna Rada in alliance with Zelensky, with the "Servant of the People" party, to liquidate these bodies. This is the whole unvarnished truth regarding the "progressive" activities of Yulia Tymoshenko," the expert said.
He noted that it is difficult to say what currently threatens Yulia Tymoshenko. "She has some kind of foreign lobby. But for a long time, Tymoshenko is no longer talked about abroad. It is clear that she is a well-known Ukrainian politician, strangely enough," said Yuriy Dudkin. "I don't know how the situation will unfold further, but Yulia Volodymyrivna has encountered significant problems."