Canadian company that promised to build a cartridge plant to Ukraine was liquidated

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The construction of a new cartridge plant in Ukraine announced by Ukroboronprom under a contract with Canadian companies GL Munitions Inc. and Waterbury Farrel never got started. The thing is that one of these companies was simply liquidated.

The fact that the new cartridge plant will soon start producing its products was announced in early June this year by the general director of Ukroboronprom Yuriy Gusev, just after the signing of an agreement on its construction with two Canadian companies. The agreement was immediately noticed. The thing is that GL Munitions Inc. was created a month before the signing of the contract and did not even have its own website. But in Kiev everyone was reassured, saying that "everything is fine."



Now, as it turned out, this company has ceased to exist altogether, being liquidated on September 15 this year. It would seem that "everything is lost", but no, Ukroboronprom announces a new memorandum with the Canadians for the construction of not only cartridge, but also gunpowder and capsule factories. True, the Gold Leaf Munitions Inc company, which will represent the Canadian side, was created only on November 3, 2021. But who cares when a country chokes out without bullets.

Note that after 2014, when the only cartridge plant remained in the LPR, Kiev repeatedly announced the opening of enterprises for the production of ammunition, which were supposed to fill Ukraine with cheap cartridges and shells, but not a single new plant has yet been opened.
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  1. +13
    17 November 2021 13: 09
    But in Kiev everyone was reassured, saying that "everything is fine."

    Well, that's right - this is normal for Kiev.
    1. +29
      17 November 2021 13: 19
      The lads have divided up and grabbed a penny, but a great construction project need not start. In the clown's unfinished place it is always like that.

      If the acting Bandera Zelensky hides money offshore, then the devil himself ordered the rest.
      1. +9
        17 November 2021 13: 37
        Quote: Nikolai S.
        The lads have divided up and grabbed a penny, but a great construction project need not start. In the clown's unfinished place it is always like that.

        They were in such a hurry to steal that even the dummy company was hastily registered! I guess tens of millions have disappeared, in their pockets ...
        1. +5
          17 November 2021 15: 05
          Quote: Nikolay S.
          The lads have divided up and grabbed a penny, but a great construction project need not start. In the clown's unfinished place it is always like that.

          If the acting Bandera Zelensky hides money offshore, then the devil himself ordered the rest.

          Without a "kickback" to Zelensky himself in this scam with the construction of a cartridge plant in
          Ukraine has definitely not done it! Yes
          1. +3
            17 November 2021 22: 17
            Now, as it turned out, this company has ceased to exist altogether, being liquidated on September 15 this year.

            Oops!!!!! Millions of Baksiks "dissolved" in offZelenskikh .... And what will you shoot, d / b, if that ???? Russia is going to attack you, WHAT WE WILL DEFEND ???? laughing belay Is there at least one bullet for the colonel to shoot? belay
            1. 0
              17 November 2021 22: 54
              Quote: Cutter
              And what will you shoot, d / b, if that ???? Russia is going to attack you,

              I still have the caps, I can share ...
      2. +6
        17 November 2021 13: 58
        Quote: Nikolai S.
        If the acting Bandera Zelensky hides money offshore ...
        That all sorts of acting. Ostap Bender himself ordered the golden calf. bully
      3. +4
        17 November 2021 14: 29
        Quote: Nikolai S.
        If the acting Bandera Zelensky hides money offshore, then the devil himself ordered the rest.

        Ukrainian Ukrainians can see Canadian Ukrainians from afar.
    2. +3
      17 November 2021 13: 41
      Quote: 76SSSR
      But in Kiev everyone was reassured, saying that "everything is fine."

      Well, that's right - this is normal for Kiev.

      Well, if it's okay, then let it be okay. In the end they will be armed with "sniper", silent slingshots. Isn't it a way out? Cheap, angry, and most importantly environmentally friendly weapon!
    3. -3
      17 November 2021 13: 49
      Quote: 76SSSR
      But in Kiev everyone was reassured, saying that "everything is fine."

      Well, that's right - this is normal for Kiev.

      You might think that this did not happen with us. It happened, and how it happened. But, as they say - in someone else's eye ...
    4. +1
      17 November 2021 14: 22
      "Because we can't do with one thing. One is very vulnerable, we need to duplicate."
      In general, "dal bude".
      And the people will not "cut it" in any way, who is the MAIN enemy of Ukraine.
    5. +3
      17 November 2021 14: 28
      According to Canadian records, GL Munitions Inc. created less than two months ago
      The company with this name - GL Munitions Inc., according to the official website of the Government of Canada (Government of Canada), was registered on April 19, 2021 and does not even have its own website.

      It is very likely that they created a company through dummies and laundered money through it. Do not forget that there are a lot of people from Ukraine in Canada. In general, those are still hustlers.
    6. -1
      17 November 2021 19: 54
      Quote: 76SSSR
      Well, that's right - this is normal for Kiev.

      belay
      Ukraine may soon enter the top ten world arms exporters. This was reported by "Interfax-Ukraine", referring to the words of the director of the concern "Ukroboronprom" Yuri Gusev during the International Defense Investment Forum.

      “Now Ukraine is one of the twenty largest world exporters of weapons, and we have all the tendencies to enter the top ten in the near future. And Ukroboronprom this year returned to the top hundred of the world's largest defense-industrial companies,” he notes.

      https://interfax.com.ua/news/economic/761258.html

      I'm wondering if they are taking (or producing) cartridges now?
      1. +1
        17 November 2021 21: 46
        Quote: ja-ja-vw
        Quote: 76SSSR
        Well, that's right - this is normal for Kiev.

        belay
        Ukraine may soon enter the top ten world arms exporters. This was reported by "Interfax-Ukraine", referring to the words of the director of the concern "Ukroboronprom" Yuri Gusev during the International Defense Investment Forum.

        “Now Ukraine is one of the twenty largest world exporters of weapons, and we have all the tendencies to enter the top ten in the near future. And Ukroboronprom this year returned to the top hundred of the world's largest defense-industrial companies,” he notes.

        https://interfax.com.ua/news/economic/761258.html

        I'm wondering if they are taking (or producing) cartridges now?

        What kind of cartridges?
        Ukrainian enterprise "Fort" in Vinnitsa began production 9mm pistol cartridges
        According to KNPO "Fort", the launch of a new production line became possible after the allocation with the support of the government and the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine, almost 69 million hryvnia. These funds were used to purchase equipment from various world manufacturers (USA, Czech Republic, Poland, Turkey).
        For today this production line can produce small arms of the specified calibers for pistols in a two-shift operation with a total amount of 14 million pieces per year.


        https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3463268.html?view=371748196
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        2. -1
          17 November 2021 22: 41
          Quote: Lara Croft
          What kind of cartridges?

          for small arms, I meant
          1. 0
            17 November 2021 22: 54
            Quote: ja-ja-vw
            for small arms, I meant

            My pictures and yours show cartridges for short-barreled automatic weapons ...
            However, the article talks about a wider range of cartridges and shells ...
            We are waiting for new pictures from you ...
            1. -1
              18 November 2021 18: 48
              Quote: Lara Croft
              We are waiting for new pictures from you ...

              and which ones to wait? and why?
              photo from article Sharia, from which this article was copied.
              1. 0
                18 November 2021 19: 29
                Quote: ja-ja-vw
                and which ones to wait?

                Well, maybe you deign to show "to the mountain" production lines for the production of other ammunition, or maybe we do not know what ammunition is produced in Ukraine and which are not ....
                1. -1
                  18 November 2021 20: 03
                  you see it is not good with a cause-and-effect relationship, or with vision
                  1.about cartridges, production and "distinguish by eye" is not my thing
                  Thanks for chewing
                  Quote: Lara Croft
                  My pictures and yours show cartridges for short-barreled automatic weapons ...

                  2.I asked myself:
                  Quote: ja-ja-vw
                  I'm wondering if they are taking (or producing) cartridges now?

                  as
                  Quote: author
                  Promised Ukraine build a cartridge factory canadian company liquidated

                  Quote: author
                  Note that after 2014, when the only cartridge plant remained in the LPR, in Kiev, they repeatedly announced the opening of enterprises for the production of ammunition, which were supposed to fill Ukraine with cheap cartridges and shells, but not a single new plant has yet been opened.

                  and you are carrying some kind of crap: he asks me to enlighten on the question that I asked
                  1. 0
                    18 November 2021 20: 07
                    Quote: ja-ja-vw
                    about cartridges, production and "distinguish by eye" is not my thing
                    Thanks for chewing

                    It's my pleasure. Good forum users are always ready to help, even evil ones ...
                    I asked myself:

                    google banned?
                    and you are carrying some kind of crap: he asks me to enlighten on the question that I asked

                    Do not swear. A lot has become a provocateur here, you won't understand who is asking, who is provoking, good members of the forum ...
                    Good night!
                    1. 0
                      18 November 2021 20: 37
                      Quote: Lara Croft
                      google banned?

                      I do not like the chewed phrases of the Internet and women who are used a lot.
                      Shl. there is no point in looking, reading and dangling about what you don’t understand. Easier to ask.
                      Language is a social phenomenon, the most important means of human communication. Language arises, develops and exists as a collective property. The main purpose of language is to serve the needs of human society and provide communication between members of a social collective, as well as the functioning of the collective memory of this community.

                      Quote: Lara Croft
                      A lot has become a provocateur here,

                      the provocateur is immediately visible. It never looked like me.
                      And you have a good night's sleep
      2. +1
        17 November 2021 22: 19
        .
        Quote: ja-ja-vw
        we have all the tendencies to enter the top ten in the near future

        Swedish SIPRI summed up the results of the world arms trade in 2016-2020
        The world share in the export of major weapons of the 10 largest exporters in 2016-20 is as follows: USA - 37%, Russia - 20%, France - 8,2%, Germany - 5,5%, China - 5,2%, Great Britain - 3,3%, Spain - 3,2%, Israel - 3,0%, South Korea - 2,7%, Italy - 2,2%, other countries - 9,6%. https://www.gazeta.ru/army/2021/03/15/13512284.shtml
        And who do they want to knock out of this dozen and at the expense of what he did not say ...
        1. 0
          18 November 2021 20: 40
          Quote: BrTurin
          And who do they want to knock out of this dozen and at the expense of what he did not say ...

          That's why I brought his statement, with a link, because it somehow looks like a clinically idiotic:
          - no cartridge factory
          -tanks I release 1 per year, maybe less
          -you don't do
          Razi that armored boats ... well, again, it is not enough
          How can they enter 10-ku-xs.
          From the end if only that
    7. avg
      +2
      19 November 2021 11: 21
      Quote: 76SSSR
      Well, that's right - this is normal for Kiev.

      And for Ottawa too. Just think, the Canadian Sumerians threw the locals, they are all their own lads. Yes
  2. +4
    17 November 2021 13: 10
    Another bummer. I wonder what kind of money they managed to pay or take a loan for this business.
    1. 0
      17 November 2021 14: 51
      Well, yes, because the project with a Kazakhstani firm to build a similar plant has sunk into oblivion. bully
  3. +6
    17 November 2021 13: 10
    Canadian company that promised Ukraine to build a cartridge factory was liquidated

    ***
    The cartridges turned out to be blank ...
    ***
    1. +4
      17 November 2021 13: 14
      hi take above super modern INVISIBLE AND NOT TALKING laughing
      1. +3
        17 November 2021 13: 50
        INVISIBLE AND INVISIBLE
        ... from neutrinos ... and maybe even worse ... from dark matter
    2. +2
      17 November 2021 13: 51
      Quote: Vladimir Vladimirovich Vorontsov
      The cartridges turned out to be blank ...

      That's for sure! And the grenades of the wrong system ...)))
  4. +1
    17 November 2021 13: 11
    Following the company, Ukraine was also "liquidated".
    1. +4
      17 November 2021 14: 19
      Unfortunately not yet....
      1. 0
        17 November 2021 15: 43
        DO YOU think that Ukraine, in its current state, is a "state"? I think no
        1. +1
          17 November 2021 15: 52
          I do not think so. But formally Sumeria exists with all the formal attributes inherent in the state.
          1. 0
            21 November 2021 11: 36
            Formally, it exists. I do not argue. Pig farming, poultry farming, the Verkhovna Rada, city and regional administrations .. All this is present. They even have their own "Minister of Defense".
  5. +3
    17 November 2021 13: 13
    Is it not clear this is a new cut pattern? Or the Canadians realized what they got themselves into request
    1. +7
      17 November 2021 13: 18
      Quote: Murmur 55
      Is it not clear this is a new cut pattern? Or the Canadians realized what they got themselves into

      There was no smell of Canadians. From the extreme grandmother they cut it out with the help of the Canadian diaspora. True, it is not yet known what will be received at the end of the process or a donut hole?
  6. Cat
    +8
    17 November 2021 13: 15
    Canadian diaspora helps with all its might - pockets are popping at the seams lol
    1. -3
      17 November 2021 14: 16
      Honestly, Canada, who just doesn’t have. Even the Americans got it the other day, the Governor of Mechigan (not sure about the state) shut off the oil pipeline by his decision. There is such a joke, part of the Canadian pipeline goes through the United States. Biden paws up, Trudeau go to court This is what it means for Trudeau to be rumored to not be Trudeau's daddy.
      1. 0
        17 November 2021 14: 34
        It has not yet closed, but only on November 12 of this year. went to court to shut off the gas pipeline. No.
        TRAVERSE CITY, MICH. - Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took legal action Friday to shut down a pipeline that carries oil beneath a channel linking two of the Great Lakes.

        Whitmer's office notified Canadian company Enbridge Inc. that it was revoking an easement granted 67 years ago to extend a roughly 4-mile section of the pipeline through the Straits of Mackinac. The revocation takes effect in 180 days, when the flow of oil must stop. https://www.chicagotribune.com/midwest/ct-great-lakes-oil-pipeline-20201113-ph5fwtqrcnc3bn7rjpvchxvae4-story.html
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  8. Two
    +2
    17 November 2021 13: 17
    Slingshots and pitchforks, for flyers, have not been canceled ...
    1. +3
      17 November 2021 13: 26
      Slingshots and pitchforks, for flyers, no one canceled
      there was a catapult on the Maidan, so let it be used
    2. +2
      17 November 2021 13: 31
      Slingshots and pitchforks, for flyers, have not been canceled ...

      Palestinian teenagers were good at slingshots in their time. Take off your helmet, and 8mm will fly to your temple. ball from the bearing. The kid will throw off the slingshot behind the bush and all the business.
  9. +4
    17 November 2021 13: 19
    I hope the Canadians managed to take the money?
    1. Cat
      +1
      17 November 2021 15: 08
      Did the Canadians manage to take money?

      I think everything was stolen before them and therefore self-destructed
  10. +3
    17 November 2021 13: 19
    All the empires that connected with this territory were falling apart and then some kind of company laughing
  11. +3
    17 November 2021 13: 20
    Without a goof and life is bad, a goof is not a mammoth - it will not die out laughing

    Often passed by the Lugansk cartridge plant))
    1. 0
      17 November 2021 14: 38
      Lenin plant. I did not pass, but I drove by more than once.
      1. 0
        17 November 2021 18: 39
        So he is not far away, he turned to the vocational school and here is the checkpoint))
        1. +1
          17 November 2021 21: 54
          Quote: Sands Career General
          So he is not far away, he turned to the vocational school and here is the checkpoint))

          Didn't he move to the Russian Federation?
          1. +1
            18 November 2021 00: 19
            Partially, but the plant fury)
  12. +4
    17 November 2021 13: 22
    The children of the Bandera supporters who have escaped with the new castrule-heads have shared their grandmothers, and they want to once again pull off the scam.
    1. +2
      17 November 2021 13: 40
      Quote: tralmaster
      The children of the Bandera members who have run away with the new castrule-heads shared their grandmothers,

      So the company was from the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada.
  13. +3
    17 November 2021 13: 23
    It was the 8th year of the war ...
    1. +3
      17 November 2021 13: 39
      Quote: Cron
      It was the 8th year of the war ...

      ... cartridges have run out ...
    2. Cat
      +2
      17 November 2021 15: 11
      It was the 8th year of the war ..

      It is already becoming interesting under what name this war will go down in history? How old is it?
      1. bar
        0
        17 November 2021 19: 37
        Quote: Gato
        It is already becoming interesting, under what name this war will go down in history?

        404 country won't have any history. And those who survive will be ashamed to remember
  14. +1
    17 November 2021 13: 26
    Somehow the monkeys decided to build a plant for the production of pomegranates in the monkey house ...
    "But in Kiev, everyone was reassured, saying that" everything is fine. "
  15. +2
    17 November 2021 13: 26
    Overjoyed as always
  16. +3
    17 November 2021 13: 26
    The thing is that one of these companies was simply liquidated.
    Interestingly, and what kind of funding did she manage to get from the Ukrainian side?
    1. +3
      17 November 2021 13: 37
      Quote: svp67
      Interestingly, and what kind of funding did she manage to get from the Ukrainian side?

      Guys with experience, prepaid money.
      1. +1
        17 November 2021 21: 58
        Quote: tihonmarine
        Quote: svp67
        Interestingly, and what kind of funding did she manage to get from the Ukrainian side?

        Guys with experience, prepaid money.

        The Ukrainians spent the whole year saving money for the construction of a moat with crocodiles on the border with the Russian Federation, and then they were promised to build a cartridge plant, in general, they threw the "orphans" again ...
        1. +1
          18 November 2021 10: 21
          Quote: Lara Croft
          and then they were promised to build a cartridge plant, in general, they threw the "orphans" again ...

          Oh, how many ladies I promised to marry, but forgot to do it, and how many orphans are wandering around the world now.
          And here with Ukraine there are some misunderstandings, everyone who wants to promises, uses it as he wants, and in the end gives up .... And again, orphans, orphans, orphans.
  17. +2
    17 November 2021 13: 27
    Here they often write that the Ukrainians are nothing worse than us and no worse and hard-working and stuff like that. Only here is the question for 7 years as they write and declare "war with Russia" could not or did not want to build at least ONE plant for the production of cartridges what there is a need, there is, support from countries that understand this is there, there is, prestige is again needed, needed, but they have what they have. Presidents are changed regularly, but it doesn’t come out YET. Maybe not everything is so good as some here prove ?!
    1. 0
      17 November 2021 14: 38
      It's just that their pockets are wide, capacious bully
    2. 0
      17 November 2021 14: 58
      could not or did not want to build at least ONE plant for the production of cartridges

      Most likely the indicator WHAT stocks they got from the warehouses of the three military districts of the USSR ... what
  18. 0
    17 November 2021 13: 28
    They looked at where they would build, and such - YES, WELL ... we'd better be liquidated))
    1. +3
      17 November 2021 14: 25
      There were demons, we do not deny this, but they self-destructed. ©
  19. +1
    17 November 2021 13: 29
    As the second lieutenant, who was thrown out of the window, said: "cartridges of the wrong system" ... wassat
  20. +2
    17 November 2021 13: 30
    It is Petrov and Bashirov who open and close cartridge factories in Canada))).

    How Kiev negotiates the construction of military facilities is unclear. I hope Kiev pays money in advance))).
    1. +2
      17 November 2021 13: 36
      Quote: Ratmir_Ryazan
      I hope Kiev pays money in advance

      "Money in the evening, chairs in the morning, money in the morning, chairs in the evening."
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  21. HAM
    +2
    17 November 2021 13: 33
    Another company "Horns and Hooves" - "Capsules and cartridges" Directly according to Ilf and Petrov ....
  22. +1
    17 November 2021 13: 35
    Gusev just after signing an agreement on its construction with two Canadian companies.

    The Canadians took the prepayment and went bankrupt, bred like suckers.
  23. +1
    17 November 2021 13: 38
    The genot wheel spun again lol
  24. 0
    17 November 2021 13: 42
    "But who cares when the country is suffocating without ammunition ..."
  25. +1
    17 November 2021 13: 47
    I still don’t understand, but this group managed to get money, otherwise I’m worried. wassat
  26. +1
    17 November 2021 13: 55
    If we analyze the history over the past 300 years, then Ukraine is like a black mark, the Empire was liquidated, the USSR was liquidated, the CIS, in fact, too, right now this mark has already reached Canadian manufacturers. Maybe you shouldn't stop them on the way to NATO and the EU laughing
    1. Cat
      +2
      17 November 2021 15: 23
      If you analyze the history

      Have you forgotten:
      1. Swedes (Charles XII) - having contacted Ukraine, he was defeated
      2. Crimean Khan - an ally of Ukraine, was cut
      3. The Polish kingdom, the province of which was Ukraine - divided several times
      4. The German Empire - after the alliance with the Directory - sawed off
      1. 0
        17 November 2021 16: 31
        Exactly, especially about the Swedes, it was I who burst lol
      2. 0
        18 November 2021 08: 08
        The USSR also had this miracle in its composition ... It's not casual.
  27. +3
    17 November 2021 13: 57
    In the Canadian company, most likely, there were ethnic skakuas, who simply "helped" to cash in on the budget money for the corresponding kickback. And a lot of money! fellow lol
    As the hero of M. Boyarsky said: - This country will be ruined by corruption! (with) Yes
  28. sen
    +2
    17 November 2021 13: 59
    The Ukrainians were repeatedly caught trying to get spare parts for the S-300 and for military aircraft in Russia. Now they will probably catch with cartridges.
  29. 0
    17 November 2021 14: 09
    They forgot to add what prepayment they gave to the liquidated konadts and that the money is bye bye
  30. +1
    17 November 2021 14: 11
    Not Kroliga, is this the case? Steno-builder.
  31. 0
    17 November 2021 14: 23
    Why didn't you write how much money floated away?
    1. +1
      17 November 2021 14: 24
      they haven’t figured out how many have sparled yet.
  32. 0
    17 November 2021 14: 30
    Why was it possible?
  33. +1
    17 November 2021 14: 43
    Apparently the Canadians have the wrong system
    1. 0
      17 November 2021 15: 44
      This is true. Foreign technologies provide for the use of much more expensive brass. Technologies from the USSR with the use of steel are not so easy to repeat. Their cartridges are a little better, the barrels from their bullets last longer, but at the same time they cost several times more. wink
  34. +1
    17 November 2021 14: 51
    The construction of a new cartridge plant in Ukraine announced by Ukroboronprom under a contract with Canadian companies GL Munitions Inc. and Waterbury Farrel never got started. The thing is that one of these companies was simply liquidated.

    It was worth waiting for right away, but rather I wonder how much money Ukraine transferred to this office.
  35. +1
    17 November 2021 15: 24
    "There were demons. But they self-destructed." (Georges Miloslavsky, "Ivan Vasilievich Changes His Profession").
  36. -1
    17 November 2021 15: 25
    And I thought that only in the Russian Federation budgets are sawing, apparently an international occupation ... I'll have to buy Barnaul ...
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  38. 0
    17 November 2021 16: 51
    ha ha ha ha ha ha
  39. 0
    17 November 2021 16: 55
    "Note that after 2014, when the only cartridge plant remained in the LPR, Kiev has repeatedly announced the opening of enterprises for the production of ammunition, which were supposed to fill Ukraine with cheap cartridges and shells, but not a single new plant has yet been opened." Actually, there are as many as three industries, one of them in Kiev, the production of 9 mm for pistols, there is a production of 5.45 12.7 and 14.5 is the production of shells for howitzers Hyacinth.
  40. 0
    17 November 2021 17: 21
    And it would be better the other way around: the company would remain, and Ukraine would be liquidated ...
  41. 0
    17 November 2021 17: 46
    Why would they build factories? Better to sell Canadian weapons.
  42. 0
    17 November 2021 17: 48
    The cartridges are spinning, the lavehi are muddied))))
  43. 0
    17 November 2021 19: 16
    Not enough ammo? Move on to slings and bows. However, making a good arrow is also a high art, some may not be able to. So there will be enough spears with cudgels. But seriously, the problem is urgent for Russia as well. Is it by chance that sportsmen-shooters shy away from Russian ammunition in every possible way? Just because they themselves have not gone so far, the equipment of almost tsarist times, therefore, releases low-grade dirt. I remember that even during the war, when these tsarist machines were not so outdated, sniper cartridges were picked up one at a time, rolled. Yes, and the rifle was assembled by a bust of more than a dozen ... While in the States it was enough to issue a request to the rear services.
  44. 0
    17 November 2021 21: 28
    Here is a cut of the dough!
  45. 0
    17 November 2021 21: 31
    This is fine. Funds are spread out in the pockets of interested parties, and more was not planned
  46. 0
    18 November 2021 04: 32
    We are Ukrainians, we will not deceive each other here .... This reminds us of the whole story with the printing of the hryvnia in Canada. I thought then that Zadornov was laughing. And he spoke the pure truth.