Recent Ukrainian Perspectives on the Trump-Ukraine Scandal - Lawfare

October 07, 2019

Russia Ukraine Recent Ukrainian Perspectives on the Trump-Ukraine Scandal - Lawfare Trump’s request for ‘favor’ could really hurt Ukraine’s president — and his agenda - Washington Post Forget Trump and Biden. For Ukraine, the scandal is still corruption. - NBC News Pipelines From Russia Cross Political Lines - The New York Times Russian-led forces launch 25 attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donbas - Ukrinform. Ukraine and world news Recent Ukrainian Perspectives on the Trump-Ukraine Scandal - Lawfare Lawfare The Trump-Ukraine scandal is moving quickly. On Oct. 4, the New York Times reported that Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Ruslan Ryaboshapka, would review the criminal case into Ukrainian gas company Burisma, which employed Hunter Biden on its board from 2014 to 2019. Read More Trump’s request for ‘favor’ could really hurt Ukraine’s president — and his agenda - Washington Post Washington Post Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Trump attend a meeting in New York in September. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) The revelation that President Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for a “favor” presents a challenge to Zelensky. Read More Forget Trump and Biden. For Ukraine, the scandal is still corruption. - NBC News NBC News KYIV, Ukraine — When Ukraine’s new top prosecutor announced Friday that his office would review a number of past corruption cases, it raised questions about whether the country's government had acquiesced to the same Trump administration pressure that is now driving an impeachment inquiry on Capitol Hill. Read More Pipelines From Russia Cross Political Lines - The New York Times The New York Times BRUSSELS — President Trump said “it really makes Germany a hostage to Russia.” Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, said it would encourage Russian “military adventurism.” Radoslaw Sikorski, the former Polish defense minister, compared it to the infamous 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that allied the Nazis with Stalin’s Soviet Union. Read More Russian-led forces launch 25 attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donbas - Ukrinform. Ukraine and world news Ukrinform. Ukraine and world news On October 6, the armed formations of the Russian Federation and its mercenaries violated ceasefire 25 times in the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) area in eastern Ukraine. “The enemy used 82mm mortars banned under the Minsk agreements, weapons on infantry fighting vehicles, grenade launchers of different systems, sniping weapons and small arms to launch attacks on positions of the Joint Forces,” the press center of the JFO Headquarters reports. Read More

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