Not for the first time, Ukraine has found itself at the center of an American political scandal. News reports say that President Donald Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to dig up dirt on his potential election rival, Joe Biden. Trump says the problem is Biden, who shut down a Ukrainian investigation into his son when he was vice president.
My advice: Don’t believe that Ukrainian officials ever did – or will do – the Americans’ bidding in such a politically charged situation. Corruption investigations tend to get nowhere in Europe’s second-most-corrupt country (after Russia). And if there’s one thing Ukrainian leaders understand, it’s that they can’t afford to take sides in U.S. politics.
