After the scandal with the supply of "Kolchuha" radar systems to Iraq, Ukraine may again find itself at the center of an international scandal, again connected to Saddam's regime.

The Iraqi publication "Al Mada" on January 25 printed a sensational list of companies, organizations and individuals who participated in illegal oil deals in return for political support of Saddam Hussein's regime.

The list also included individual organizations and individuals from Russia and Ukraine.

In Russia, this is the Orthodox Church (5 million barrels), the head of the presidential administration (5 million barrels), Zhirinovsky's Liberal Democratic Party (79.8 million barrels), the Russian Communist Party (1 million barrels), Yukos (2 million barrels).

The Ukrainian list is no less interesting. Oil from Saddam was received by: the Communist Party (6 million), "Naftogaz Ukrainy" (8 million barrels), "Yuzhmash" (1 million barrels). The Socialist Party (1 million barrels) and the Social Democratic Party (1 million barrels) are also mentioned.

It should be noted that the translation from Arabic is rather inaccurate. And since there are several parties with such a name in Ukraine, one can only guess which socialists and social democrats were meant.

However, it is known that at one time Iraq was visited by PSPU leader Natalia Vitrenko and Social Democratic Union leader Serhiy Peresunko.

Among Ukraine's closest neighbors, Belarus also received "oil" assistance from Hussein. There, the presidential administration and the Liberal Party each received 1 million barrels.

Among those who received oil from Saddam are also listed the son of former Egyptian President Nasser, former Jordanian parliamentarian Tujan al-Faisal and the current president of Indonesia, the son of the president of Lebanon and the son of the defense minister of Syria.

Iraqi Deputy Oil Minister Abdula Sahib Salman Kotob told Agence France-Presse on January 27 that the documents of the State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) "expose how Saddam engaged in illegal supplies of Iraqi oil to individuals who supported him, turning a blind eye to the mass murders and injustice that Saddam committed against the sons of the Iraqi people."

According to AFP, the minister cooperated with Interpol to establish the schemes for obtaining cash for millions of barrels of free "dirty" oil.

However, spokespeople for the head of the Russian Orthodox Church and the LDPR, led by Zhirinovsky, in a comment to "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" on January 29 denied these deals.

However, the newspaper notes that the church began engaging in oil trading from the time when in 1990 it became a co-owner of "International Economic Cooperation" and began participating in government projects to help stock programs in Russia.

The newspaper also notes that a delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church visited Iraq before the war, and the head of the delegation handed Hussein a letter of support from Moscow Patriarch Alexy II.

Secretary of the Russian Communist Party Oleg Kulikov said in a comment to "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" that this article was "black PR," and everything happening in Iraq is "under the control of American special services."

Currently, the Ukrainian or Belarusian side has not commented on the appearance of these data.