Five Years After the Arson: A Personal Story of Justice Denied Under Zelenskyy

Let me tell you a story that explains how I feel about Zelenskyy’s promises of justice.

The head of the Anti-Corruption Action Center Vitalii Shabunin reveals.

Exactly five years ago, I was rushing through the night to my completely burned-down house, where only by a miracle my wife’s parents didn’t burn alive.

Back then, President Zelenskyy declared: “The task of law enforcement is to investigate this crime as quickly as possible. I have instructed the Prosecutor General and the Minister of Internal Affairs to take the investigation under their personal control.”

Zelenskyy’s law enforcement officers not only failed to find anyone — they even refused to interrogate the people we identified. The investigators and the prosecutor blatantly ignored our official requests, which included a pile of evidence.

And six months later, a grenade was thrown at my blind mother’s doorstep. The same thing happened to my wife’s parents, who had just started to recover psychologically from the arson.

Those perpetrators — even the executors — were never found by Zelenskyy’s law enforcement, as you can imagine.

Today – five years later – I’ll once again be rushing through the night, from eastern Kharkiv region to Kyiv, after being urgently summoned by the State Bureau of Investigation. From what I gather, they’re going to serve me with new charges.

Meanwhile, in saving his friends from prison, Zelenskyy hasn’t just destroyed NABU and SAPO – he has killed our EU accession too, something we earned with the blood of our very best.

That’s how I feel about Zelenskyy’s promises of justice.

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