The fight for the Ukrainian anniversary has begun!
I offer interesting information published by my colleague Marian Oschanovsky on the website “Censor.net”. It is dedicated to another fraudulent scheme to obtain a license for Ukrainian lithium, in which famous former Ukrainian politicians are involved. Blog text:
“A partner of Rabinovich and Kolomoisky is set to receive access to Ukrainian lithium — without a public tender.
The shareholders of the “1+1” television channel deserve a place in school textbooks — as a living symbol of backroom deals, media manipulation, and blood-stained business. Their controversial influence on Ukraine’s fate is nothing short of scandalous. Today, they are shamelessly securing access to Ukrainian lithium, openly celebrating a “victory” in international PR articles — in a tender whose official date has not even been set by the Cabinet.
Medvedchuk and Rabinovich, both former shareholders of the “1+1” television channel, appear to benefit from the services of an extremely influential 81-year-old lobbyist closely tied to Donald Trump — who, notably, was also a co-owner of “1+1”, a connection that placed him at the center of a U.S. federal investigation into the bribery of Ukrainian officials!!!
We are talking about Ronald Lauder, a prominent figure in the global Jewish movement, and his undocumented partnership with TechMet — a South African corporation registered in Dublin, which has mysteriously been rebranded as “American” in Ukrainian media.
In the context of Ukrainian lithium, media reports describe 81-year-old Ronald Lauder as one of the “key investors” and a political actor in the broader strategic vision for resource extraction.
https://www.mining.com/us-backed-techmet-eyes-ukraine-lithium-asset/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
This is an exceptionally vague formulation — one more accurately read as “a friend of Trump promising to deliver Ukrainian lithium to South Africans.” There is no official evidence of Ronald Lauder’s actual investments in Ukrainian lithium or TechMet — only PR statements from TechMet, a South African corporation registered in Dublin. Let the matter be assessed by U.S. law enforcement, especially given the apparent violation of the Lobbying Disclosure Act (2 U.S.C. § 1601 et seq.), should Lauder’s involvement and influence over U.S. government decisions have gone undisclosed.
The PR campaign orchestrated by TechMet and its South African CEO Brian Menell aims to create the illusion that TechMet operates as a quasi-branch of the U.S. State Department, implementing U.S. mineral resource policy across the globe. In reality, the only connection between the Dublin-registered, South African TechMet and the United States is a passive investment of $105 million by the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) — an entity genuinely linked to U.S. government institutions, but entirely uninvolved in TechMet’s operations.
Vadym Rabinovych, a former MP from the Opposition Platform — For Life (OPFL) and currently wanted on charges of high treason, co-owned the “1+1” television channel for years alongside Ronald Lauder. He also appears in materials from a U.S. Department of Justice and federal prosecutor investigation involving bribes to Ukrainian officials — specifically, approximately $1.2 million routed through offshore structures and intermediaries to secure a broadcast license for “1+1”.
https://fpa.org/the-eu-is-fostering-progress-in-tackling-corruption-2/
Today, Vadym Rabinovych, a known collaborator, serves — openly and with unabashed cynicism — as Ukraine’s official representative in the European Jewish Parliament, where he is regarded as a key figure. The Parliament’s opening ceremony was attended by Ronald Lauder and financed by Ihor Kolomoisky, another shareholder of “1+1.”
https://ejp.eu/members/vadim-rabinovich/
Earlier, Ukrainian media reported that Vladimir Ihnashchenko — a controversial former deputy economy minister under Yanukovych — is acting on behalf of Ronald Lauder and TechMet in Ukraine. He is the same official who once inserted a proxy company linked to Yanukovych’s son into a production-sharing agreement between Shell and Ukraine, a move that ultimately cost Shell $100 million and forced the company to exit Ukraine with losses.
Ihnashchenko is once again “representing interests” — and once again operating under familiar schemes. According to media reports, he has already managed to falsify an official credential allegedly issued by Ukraine’s Ministry of Economy.
Serious scrutiny is needed regarding the alleged involvement of Boris Lozhkin — a Monaco resident and another official representative of Ronald Lauder — in this international lithium fraud scheme. According to available information, a group of Monaco-based individuals tied to the operations of South African TechMet, with the involvement of Rabinovych and Lozhkin, have allegedly drawn the respected Lauder into a large-scale fraudulent enterprise aimed at securing a lithium mining license in Ukraine for the “Dobre” deposit in the Kirovohrad region. Given that Rabinovych and Medvedchuk maintain a comfortable presence in aggressor state Russia, the consortium has also reportedly been promised a license for the Shevchenkivske lithium deposit, located on temporarily occupied Ukrainian territory.
This entire situation bodes poorly for Ukraine’s lithium sector and may jeopardize a potential mineral resource deal between Ukraine and the United States. As of today, the Dobre deposit is nothing more than an empty field; launching extraction would require several times more investment than the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has ever committed to TechMet — hundreds of millions of dollars, all in the midst of an ongoing war.
The most realistic forecast for producing the first ton of lithium from this site is no sooner than seven years. By that time, the respected Ronald Lauder will be 88 years old. The project is unlikely to reach break-even or generate profit before year 15.
Thus, my subjective conclusion is the following: this appears to be yet another fraudulent scheme, designed to obtain a license, attract capital from the market, and later abandon investors under the pretext of force majeure related to the war — true to the finest traditions of the Yanukovych era.
Ukraine’s new Cabinet must proceed with extreme caution — lest, under the banner of launching lithium extraction, it ends up inadvertently financing the return of “Party of Regions 2.0.” That risk is real if the facts presented here are not thoroughly investigated”.