The whistleblowing WikiLeaks website on Feb. 1 published more than 10 new U.S. State Department cables mentioning Ukraine, mostly dealing with Ukraine's efforts to stem the proliferation of nuclear materials and ties with Libya.
Previous briefs posted to the Internet have provided insight insight into U.S. interest in Russia’s rocky relationship with Ukraine, top-level government corruption in the transit of Russian natural gas via Ukraine to Europe, Ukraine’s plans to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and consequences of Russia’s full-scale military invasion of Georgia in August 2008.
Future releases, to take place "over the months ahead," are expected to include more than 1,000 diplomatic cables originating from the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv from December 2005 through February 2010.
Presidential Administration deputy head Anna Herman made headlines in December when she said Ukraine "has nothing to fear" from the leaked diplomatic correspondence.
"What the current authorities say in tete-a-tete conversations is no different from the official position of our state and those who have power," Herman said. "We do not have double standards."
For the latest WikiLeaks documents about Ukraine, see cablesearch.org, a searchable website created by the European Centre for Computer Assisted Research Eccar and the Dutch-Flemish association for investigative journalists.
