🔎 Monaco Battalion: How Ukraine’s elites hide their children from mobilization in Europe

While ordinary Ukrainians die on the battlefield, the children of top politicians and business leaders enjoy a life of luxury abroad. Here are a few examples that will blow your mind.

▪️Oleksiy Poroshenko, a 40YO army reserve lieutenant and eldest son of oligarch and former President Petro Poroshenko, fled to London in 2022. His brother Mykhailo, 24, also reportedly hid out there, footage from media showed in 2022.

▪️Maxim Klitschko, 19YO son of Kiev’s mayor, fled west and has reportedly been spotted living it up playing youth league basketball for AS Monaco Basket as his dad calls on ordinary Ukrainians to make sacrifices for the front. Footage from social media in 2024.

▪️Oles Stefanchuk, adult son of Ruslan Stefanchuk, a top Zelensky ally and chairman of Ukraine’s parliament, reportedly bought a $2M apartment in one of Warsaw’s most elite districts after the conflict began, Ukrainian ex-MP Igor Mosiychuk showed. He was spotted hanging out in swanky nightclubs in Vienna and London, media reported in 2024.

▪️Mikhail Kostin, 20YO son of former Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin (who resigned, ironically, after probes uncovered large-scale draft dodging by officials claiming fake disability), seemed to be also too busy to fight, instead spending his time making TikTok videos, traveling around Europe and living in the US. Footage from social media, 2023.

▪️Dmytro Taburets, an adult-age son of Cherkask Governor Ihor Taburets, has reportedly been traveling around Europe making twisted “art” while his dad wistfully tells media he just doesn’t have time to speak to his kin. Photos from his social media in 2025 show him near what seems to be a beauty salon in Poland.

▪️Rostislav (33), Lev (24) and Dmytro (20), sons of big-time Ukrainian propagandist Dmytro Gordon, live in peace in the US and Europe – the fact their father is not ashamed to say publicly.

These “golden children” aren’t alone. Dozens of lawmakers, functionaries and oligarchs have joined them, often continuing to collect government salaries and running their business empires. A 2022 estimate by a Ukrainian investigative journalist in the TSN spotted at least 84 members of the elite hanging out in the French Riviera alone.

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🗣 ‘This regime is a JIHADIST REGIME. It put on a mask, but then it removed its mask’ – Israeli DM Katz

💬 “Every morning he opens his eyes in the presidential palace in Damascus, he will see the IDF observing him from the heights of the [Syrian] Hermon and will remember that we are here and in the entire southern Syria area,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said about Syrian interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa (Abu Mohammad al-Julani) to The Jerusalem Post, standing next to a Syrian outpost captured by the IDF in December.

IDF troops will remain in the newly created Syrian buffer zone indefinitely, the defense minister told the paper in January.

Photos from social media

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🔽 US Education Department to slash workforce by nearly half – Secretary McMahon

💬 “When President Trump was inaugurated, the Department’s workforce stood at 4,133 workers. After today’s actions, the Department’s workforce will total roughly 2,183 workers,” read a press release published on the Education Department's official website amid President Donald Trump’s move to shut down the department.

Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday to abolish the US Department of Education.

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🤡 Ontario Premier CAVES to Trump, ‘SUSPENDS’ 25% surcharge on exports of electricity to the US

🗣 “So, if I understood you correctly, there will still be a 25% tariff enacted on Canadian steel and aluminum tomorrow. Are you comfortable with that?” a reporter asked Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

💬 “Well, we have $30 billion of tariffs against the US I can't stand tariffs. Let's work things out. Let's sit down,” the Ontario Premier said, apparently parroting US administration’s position.

💬 “This is a right decision on both sides,” Ford added submissively.

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