Holy Crap.... Looks like they got Medvedchuk

[Nevilledog]

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Christo Grozev
@christogrozev
Zelensky's official telegram account announces that SBU caught the fugitive oligarch and Putin's close friend Viktor Medvedchuk. Camouflage and all.
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11:14 AM · Apr 12, 2022

[Backseat Driver]

1. Later on though, think he might be worth the return of 120K Ukrainian kids and/or adult "campers"?

[Baitball Blogger]

18. Bank shot!

[AZLD4Candidate]

31. Honestly, I don't believe a sociopath like Putin would care.

I believe his attitude is he is untouchable and if someone gets caught, there are others to replace him.

Like Stalin said about his captured son: "Why would I do that for a soldier" when told the Nazis wanted to do an exchange. Stalin let his son rot in a POW camp until his son committed suicide by throwing himself on an electrified fence.

Since it seems Putin is Stalin 2.0, I believe he will let the oligarch rot.

[yardwork]

40. I think that's why this man has a hopeless, vacant look.

If he's ever returned to Russia he'll be executed.

[AllTooEasy]

49. Actually Stalin said...

“Why should I trade a (field) marshal for a lieutenant?”

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/6f79pt/til_when_stalins_first_son_was_captured_hitler/

Makes perfect sense, unless the lieutenant is your son

[AkFemDem]

2. This.... Doesn't even look like him 👀

I mean, hopefully it turns out to be true but.

[Ohio Joe]

5. I don't know...

It could be.

[colorado_ufo]

29. Nose, hairline, mouth, more . . .

I would put money on it: It's the guy!

[AZLD4Candidate]

32. What is it with these guys buying their mistresses/wives?

Other than his bankroll, what does she see in him if they are together?

[dhol82]

42. Power

Power and money are incredibly powerful aphrodisiacs.

[AZLD4Candidate]

43. I would say something about how I feel about that, but I would get a post removed if I did.

[SunSeeker]

46. They're not aphrodisiacs. I assure you, she is not physically attracted to him.

But she loves money and power, so she's willing to do whatever it takes to get those things, even pretend she's turned on by that piece of shit.

[The Jungle 1]

52. So said a creepy treasonous repuke who was convicted and left is shame.

"power and wealth are the ultimate aphrodisiac"
Spiro T. Agnew

[dhol82]

54. Did not know Spiro said that.

Interesting

[Bettie]

10. Nah, it does look like him

but he's lost a lot of weight and aged.

[sop]

11. That's what life on the lam will do to you.

[HubertHeaver]

22. And, he has that

"Oh! Fuck." look on his face.

[obamanut2012]

20. It looks exactly like him

He's just thinner and his hair isn't dyed and slicked.

[dchill]

27. Yep.

[SCantiGOP]

34. I don't think Ukraine would jeopardize their credibility

I feel pretty certain the identity is correct

[Johnny2X2X]

3. Go show him the dead women and children

Make him sleep in a shipping container with dead women and children his comrades butchered.

[SmallFry]

4. Guy was on house arrest until the start of the war in February.

He didn't stay free long.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2022/04/12/7339145/

It's my understanding there were conversations about this guy becoming President in order for there to not be a war. Our government was accepting to such a situation.

[Budi]

6. He's one of Putin's kids' godfather

Some role model huh!

[herding cats]

7. I think Putin is godfather to Medvedchuk's daughter.

But the same applies about roll models.

[herding cats]

8. He looks rough.

Good! I hope he's been living hard since he escaped.

[Lovie777]

9. He was in Ukraine?........

[Nevilledog]

12. He was there under house arrest until he escaped in February.

Traitor had the nerve to try and escape wearing an Ukrainian uniform.

[pnwmom]

28. He was a pro-Putin leader there. n/t

[OneBlueDotS-Carolina]

13. Guardian

Zelenskiy announces capture of Putin ally in Ukraine

Volodomyr Zelenskiy announced that oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk, Putin’s closest ally in Ukraine, has been captured by Ukrainian law enforcement. On his official Telegram account, Zelenskiy posted a picture of Medvedchuk in handcuffs.

Christo Grozev (@christogrozev)

Zelensky's official telegram account announces that SBU caught the fugitive oligarch and Putin's close friend Viktor Medvedchuk. Camouflage and all. pic.twitter.com/DkWa5xlOEq
April 12, 2022

Medvedchuk is the leader of the Opposition Platform for Life, Ukraine’s biggest opposition party. In March, the party was one of several that Zelenskiy suspended due to its links to Russia. Ukrainian authorities had put Medvedchuk under house arrest, but he escaped three days after Russia invaded Ukraine 24 February. His whereabouts had been unknown until today’s announcement.

Luke Harding (@lukeharding1968)

This will further infuriate Vladimir Putin, who is godfather to Viktor Medvedchuk's daughter. Medvedchuk is - or was - Ukraine's foremost pro-Kremlin politician. He looks tired and distraught https://t.co/Zg95epKdDl
April 12, 2022

Nice yacht you have had there Viktor....

MY Royal Romance[3][4] is a 92 meter luxury yacht, built by Feadship as hull #1005 and designed by De Voogt Naval Architects. Her interior design is done by Seymour Diamond. She is powered by twin MTU 3,004 hp diesel engines. One of her exterior features includes a swimming pool located on the main aft deck. Royal Romance accommodates 14 guests and 22 crew members. She was delivered to her owner in July 2015. Royal Romance is not available for charter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Romance_(yacht)

[paleotn]

14. Yes he looks rough. You'd look rough too..

if you were caught by guys who really, really don't like you, and you could be quickly tried, convicted and executed for treason.
Imagine what would have become of Benedict Arnold had the Continentals caught him.

[world wide wally]

15. He looks like he would make a good human shield.

Let Putin kill him.

[lefthandedskyhook]

50. Please trade him

Think of the captives

[Crunchy Frog]

16. Here's a better picture of him.

Link to tweet

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[sprinkleeninow]

23. They say people are verklempt over this.

😫😭

Sad Trombone

[Botany]

39. Kind of puffy around the face too

Get what you can out of him and then give him a chair, a brick wall, and an appointment @ dawn.

[Crataegus]

41. Hiding in plain sight

His face looks like he has been wearing a balaclava and mingling with soldiers.

[denbot]

48. I think you're right

Nice catch.

[gab13by13]

17. Meh, Putin likes godfathers who don't get captured.

[SilasSouleII]

19. Ding ding ding...thread winner!

N/T

[Leghorn21]

47. OH BABY!!

[SilasSouleII]

21. He's wearing a UKR uniform

Ukrainian flag on left shoulder. Also pants too large.

[ShazzieB]

24. Wonder where he got that outfit?

I have some ideas, none of which would be favorable for its previous owner.

[AllaN01Bear]

25. u can run , but, u cant hide.

boom.

[Roc2020]

26. He has the same look Saddam Hussein had

when he was captured

[JudyM]

30. Excellent news.

Big sigh of relief by the guard(s) on whose watch he had escaped.

[AZLD4Candidate]

33. I have no sympathy for any of these people at all.

[honest.abe]

35. Sounds like they got a pretty big fish.

[SergeStorms]

36. Putin hardly knew him.

He might have gotten Putin's coffee once in a while, but it wasn't like Putin and Medvechuk were good friends or anything.

[LakeArenal]

38. Funny. Warning: Search for NO images of them together.

Because there aren’t any…. Err… those are both impostors.

[live love laugh]

37. WOW 😮 oligarchs fight⁉️ Well foreign oligarchs do.

American oligarchs get excused for bone spurs.

[alfredo]

44. Float a rumor that he is cooperating fully.

Release him at the border with Russia.

[rsdsharp]

45. How did they ever find him? He's practically invisible!

Like the F35!

[LaMouffette]

51. Like his puppet Trump, Putin's motto is "I like people who weren't captured."

Also like Trump, Putin has no true friends. Another similarity, he demands loyalty but gives none. And they're both crazy.

If a Venn diagram were done on the two, the overlapping middle part would be "yuuuuge," while the two parts on the outer edges of the circles that show how Putin and Trump are dissimilar would be as skinny as two toenail clippings.

[The Jungle 1]

53. Put him is a cell with a sword.

[Jilly_in_VA]

55. Oh hell no.

Don't give him the satisfaction. Hang him in the public square in Mariupol.

[The Jungle 1]

56. Can't say yer wrong.

Kinda like the citizens of Italy did to benito mussolini and his mistress. Good old benito, the father of fascism. The filth that man gave the world still stinks. Yet here we are again.