More blood on both Zelensky and Biden’s hands
Gonzalo Lira, an American citizen and journalist of Chilean descent who had been exposing corruption in Ukraine, has reportedly died while in the custody of Ukrainian forces.
Some of the topics Lira covered included Hunter Biden’s corrupt business operations in Ukraine and how they were tied to the country’s puppet president Volodymyr Zelensky and the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion.
According to Tucker Carlson, Lira’s father confirmed his son recently passed away in a Ukrainian prison where he “was being held for the crime of criticizing the Zelensky and Biden governments.”
“Gonzalo Lira was an American citizen, but the Biden administration clearly supported his imprisonment and torture. Several weeks ago we spoke to his father, who predicted his son would be killed,” Carlson wrote on social media.
Gonzalo Lira, Sr. says his son has died at 55 in a Ukrainian prison, where he was being held for the crime of criticizing the Zelensky and Biden governments. Gonzalo Lira was an American citizen, but the Biden administration clearly supported his imprisonment and torture. Several… https://t.co/F0nOG9qGvv
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) January 12, 2024
The journalist died after a “nearly three-month battle with pneumonia” that was ignored by his captors, according to his dad.
Carlson just released an interview with Lira’s father in December:
BREAKING – SAD: American citizen Gonzalo Lira has died at 55 in a Ukrainian prison where he was being held for criticizing the Zelensky and Biden governments, his father says. You may remember his interview with @TuckerCarlson. WATCH pic.twitter.com/9aHDCmuis4
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) January 12, 2024
Elon Musk questioned why any American citizen was sitting in a Ukrainian prison while Biden sent the corrupt European nation billions of dollars.
An American citizen is in prison n Ukraine after we sent over a $100 billion?
Is there more to this story than simply criticizing Zelensky?
If that’s all it is, then we have serious problem here.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 9, 2023
The father, Gonzalo Lira Sr., also provided a statement to The Grayzone after learning of his son’s death, saying, “I cannot accept the way my son has died. He was tortured, extorted, and incommunicado for 8 months and 11 days, and the US Embassy did nothing to help my son. The responsibility of this tragedy is the dictator Zelensky, with the concurrence of a senile American president, Joe Biden.”
In one of the last videos Lira uploaded to the internet before being caught by the Ukrainian Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the journalist described his experience in a Ukraine prison.
One of US Citizen Journalist Gonzalo Lira’s last videos before being jailed and tortured to death in Ukraine.
Despite efforts from Tucker Carlson, and Elon Musk raising concerns to Zelensky, Gonzalo’s father announced today that his son has died in a Ukrainian prison.
He was… pic.twitter.com/Q4NC5sS9K9
— TaraBull (@TaraBull808) January 12, 2024
In August 2023, Lira was re-captured by the SBU after just being released from the three-month jail sentence he referred to in the video above.
The journalist was trying to escape Ukraine when he was caught by the Ukrainian military.
Right now, I’m about to try to get out of Ukraine, and seek political asylum in Hungary.
Either I’ll cross the border and make it to safety, or I’ll be disappeared by the Kiev regime.
This is what’s happened to me over the past three months.
1/25
— Gonzalo Lira (@GonzaloLira1968) July 31, 2023
When he was abducted by the Ukrainian military, its transgender spokesperson “Sarah” Ashton-Cirillo bragged about the arrest in a bizarre press video.
A spokesman for the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) claimed Lira was arrested for violating Ukrainian law as he “systematically justified” Russia’s actions in Ukraine and “disseminated pro-Russian views on his social media accounts.”
Another accusation was that he “also claimed that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were shelling their own territory, while a neo-Nazi regime reigned in Ukraine,” which is absolutely factual.
A reporter with The Grayzone asked a U.S. State Department spokesperson about Lira’s status after he was disappeared by the SBU, but the Biden administration official refused to comment.
The journalist also pointed out it would be concerning if one of America’s closest allies was torturing one of its citizen journalists.
The Grayzone’s @cosgrove_iv asked @StateDeptSpox today about the status of Gonzalo Lira, the US citizen who was jailed by the Ukrainian govt for challenging its official narrative of the war and whose Twitter account now claims he’s making a break for the Hungarian border pic.twitter.com/kc7NY6hkdt
— The Grayzone (@TheGrayzoneNews) August 1, 2023
Well, now it appears America’s “ally” may have killed a citizen journalist.
The Grayzone‘s Max Blumenthal accurately summed up the tragic story, writing, “Gonzalo Lira was jailed by Ukraine’s post Maidan regime for speaking against its war effort. He was a US citizen left to languish and die by Ukraine’s main patron in Washington and is now apparently dead. Another crime by the authoritarian Zelensky-Biden cartel.”
Gonzalo Lira was jailed by Ukraine’s post Maidan regime for speaking against its war effort. He was a US citizen left to languish and die by Ukraine’s main patron in Washington and is now apparently dead. Another crime by the authoritarian Zelensky-Biden cartel. https://t.co/kMdzeSyMIB
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) January 12, 2024
Several popular political commentators, journalists and 𝕏 accounts paid their respects to Lira online Friday:
I spoke with Coach Red Pill (Gonzalo Lira) several times. While I do not agree with all of his views, no American should be abandoned to torture and death in a third world jail cell.
Criticism of Zelensky and Ukraine is patently protected. That the Biden regime did not address…
— Styxhexenhammer666 (@Styx666Official) January 12, 2024
Rest in Peace Gonzalo Lira. You imparted a great deal of wisdom on me in our conversations, and on everyone who was lucky enough to watch your streams and read your work. I will never forget what Zelensky and his Nazi Ukrainian government did to you at the behest of the Biden… pic.twitter.com/ETQ9gorOY1
— Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) January 12, 2024
RIP Gonzalo Lira.
He was kidnapped by the Ukrainian SBU, tortured, and ultimately died in Ukrainian captivity, all for speaking out against Zelenskyy’s needless war.
Please pray for the repose of his soul. He was a baptized, confirmed Catholic. pic.twitter.com/ViZuI7D4uu
— David J. Reilly 🇺🇸 (@realDaveReilly) January 12, 2024
Gonzalo Lira, an American citizen and prominent critic of the Zelensky regime, is reported to have died in a Ukrainian prison.
He had alleged significant torture while detained for “justifying Russian agression” Link to full @TheGrayzoneNews article below pic.twitter.com/OGEh9DWgXF
— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) January 12, 2024
