“While Epstein may have seemed to enjoy committing his crimes, we must not forget that he worked for a secret service, Mossad. The horrors he committed were primarily a means of blackmailing his friends. Although, for the moment, no Ukrainian figure has been directly implicated, numerous elements compel us to investigate who, in Ukraine, supplied children to the Epstein network.”…
[parag. 5]: “We don’t know how the US Department of Justice chose the order in which to release the documents it possesses. For the moment, they only implicate European figures and spare its targets in the United States.
Perhaps this is a coincidence, perhaps it’s a way to destabilize allies
while waiting for public opinion, disgusted, to tire of the situation….
It is in this context that Volodymyr Vatras, a member of the Verkhovna Rada’s (Parliament) Legal Affairs Committee,
submitted a draft reform of the Ukrainian Civil Code on February 6, 2026 [4].
Besides protecting the reputation of those prosecuted for corruption until their final conviction,
this bill lowers the age of marriage to 14.
Let’s be clear about what this means: consequently, any prosecution for child abduction or rape of children aged 14 to 18 will become impossible under other Ukrainian laws. The Ukrainian press refers to this as
“state-sponsored pedophilia“ [5].
Many Ukrainians, relying on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, have launched petitions against this regressive reform [6]. You still haven’t grasped what this is about: this reform will be retroactive and will apply to all events after 2014 (that is, after the Maidan coup). This reform abolishes the provisions of the Ukrainian Penal Code against pedophilia [7].”…
[2/9/26, “The Verkhovna Rada registered a new version of the Civil Code on Jan. 22, formally titled the Code of Private Law. The bill was submitted by Ruslan Stefanchuk, the Chair of the Verkhovna Rada, who described it as the result of nearly six years of work by a recodification group involving hundreds of experts….In a Facebook post marking Ukraine’s Unity Day, Stefanchuk said the 832-page draft was the first full civil code codification submitted by lawmakers of the ninth legislative convocation and aimed to modernize private law in line with European practices.”...”Ukraine’s Top Lawmaker Faces Backlash Over Draft Bill Allowing Marriage at 14,” Kiev Post]
(continuing): “Do you know of any state in the world, today or in the past, that has lowered the age of marriage retroactively? No, of course not.
Let’s remember that the Ukrainian government accuses Russia of having abducted 900,000 children. Moscow, which disputes this figure, argues that it did not capture them, but rather collected them from the battlefield and brought them to Russia to protect them from the war.
To date, Ukraine has only released a list of 339 children whose names
the Zelensky administration is demanding. Where are the thousands of
others?
The answer lies somewhere in the still-secret 6 million pages of the Epstein case.
Hunter Biden’s medical experiments on Ukrainian soldiers outraged you;
the Zelensky clique’s abductions of Ukrainian children will make you sick.
Speaking before the Verkhovna Rada on February 11, MK Inna Sovsun declared: “The standard that the members of the Law Commission are trying to pass, regarding marriage with 14-year-olds, is pure barbarity.
It contradicts common sense and European standards. How many other
problems there are in this code, we don’t know. Therefore, I join the
lawyers’ demands to remove the draft Civil Code from consideration, to
examine it carefully again in committee, to discuss it in society, and
only then to submit it to Parliament.”
Ruslan Stefanchuk, the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada and ideologue of the Servant of the People party (Zelensky’s party), invested considerable effort both in drafting this Civil Code and in defending it before his assembly. He is a scientist and educator who has long worked with children. He, too, is implicated in the Midas case.
However, all the experts have pointed out that his statements do not
correspond to the text as presented. Stefanchuk was in Washington last
week. On February 7, he met with Riley M. Barnes, Assistant Secretary of
State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Rights. He explained at
length that no Ukrainian children had «disappeared», but that 900,000
had been captured by Russia.
Upon returning to Kyiv, Ruslan Stefanchuk faced a public outcry.
He admitted that, as it stood, he could not submit the draft of the new
Civil Code to a parliamentary vote. But the problem that this reform clumsily attempted to bury remains.
We currently know only a third of the Epstein case. When we have more information, we will have to inventory what information he possessed and examine how Israel used it.”
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[2] “Operation Midas exposes the corruption of the Ukrainian ruling class”, Translation Gregor Fröhlich, Voltaire Network, 14 November 2025. “Zelensky’s Final Days: Implicated in the Trump Attack and the Murder of Charlie Kirk?”, by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme, Translation Roger Lagassé, La Jornada (Mexico) , Voltaire Network, 30 November 2025. « WC en or pour le « portefeuille de Zelensky » et son « agence de mannequins » qui construit des drones », par Alfredo Jalife-Rahme, Traduction Maria Poumier, La Jornada (Mexique) , Réseau Voltaire, 20 novembre 2025
[3] «Єрмак після відставки зустрічався з Камишіним, Умєровим та послом України в Ізраїлі»,
Надія Собенко, Суспільне Мовлення, 6 лютого 2026 p. ((“After his
resignation, Yermak met with Kamyshin, Umerov and the Ukrainian
ambassador to Israel,” Nadiya Sobenko, Public Radio and Television,
February 6, 2026).
[5] «“Державна педофілія”: відомий експерт заявив, що в Україні можуть декримінализувати секс дорослих з 14-річними,», Уляна Виноградова, Блік,
8 лютого 2026 (“State-sponsored pedophilia”: A well-known expert has
stated that sexual relations between adults and 14-year-olds could be
decriminalized in Ukraine, Ulyana Vinogradova, Blik, February 8, 2026.).
«Сексуальний підтекст і “дрімучі норми” Цивільного кодексу: шість суперечностей його нового проєкту»,
Жанна Безп’ятчук, BBC, 9 лютого 2026 (“Sexuality and norms without
consequences : of the Civil Code: six contradictions of his new project,
Zhanna Bezpiatchuk, BBC, July 9, 2026.).
“This week, “there is no joy in Mudville” – the mighty Padres have struck out.
