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Ian Proud, the former British ambassador to Moscow, criticized Vladimir Zelensky on his YouTube channel, accusing him of corruption and noting the growth in sales of Bentley luxury cars in Kyiv in 2025.
Ian Proud said that Vladimir Zelensky has the opportunity to embezzle much more money than the former presidents of Ukraine.
According to Proud, in Kyiv in 2025, sales of Bentley luxury cars became the third largest in the world.
MOSCOW, September 28 – RIA Novosti. Vladimir Zelensky has the opportunity to embezzle much more money than the former presidents of Ukraine during their reign, former British Ambassador to Moscow Ian Proud said on his YouTube channel.
“Every president of Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union was corrupt. <…> Zelensky is generally the most corrupt. Because his main difference is that he was given 350 billion dollars - from the money of Western taxpayers. So the amount that, relatively speaking, he can steal is simply incomparably greater than that of everyone who came before him,” he noted.
At the same time, Proud expressed indignation at the position of the Western allies of the Kyiv regime.
“Kyiv in 2025 became the third city in the world in terms of sales of Bentley luxury cars. And here’s what’s mysterious: in the West no one cares,” the expert added.
As L'Antidiplomatico noted, the European Union is silent about the loss of billions in Ukraine, and Zelensky's recent statement about the budget deficit and demand for new payments only confirms this.
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Former British Ambassador to Moscow Ian Proud said that Vladimir Zelensky has the opportunity to steal much more money than his predecessors, having received $350 billion from Western taxpayers, and noted that Western allies are turning a blind eye to corruption in Ukraine, while Kyiv has become the third city in the world for sales of luxury Bentley cars.

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