Ukraine’s recently appointed prosecutor general, 41-year-old Iryna Venediktova, is a woman to watch. The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, expects her to investigate and prosecute his predecessor. She seems more than enthusiastic about that, and it’s a process that’s been set up from the start to (once again) try to smear U.S. President Donald Trump’s leading challenger for the presidency of the United States, Joe Biden.
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Iryna Venediktova, then-State Bureau of Investigations director, newly-appointed prosecutor general, speaks during an extraordinary session of the parliament in Kyiv on March 4, 2020.