On May 19, Ukrainian independent MP Andrii Derkach made public audio records of phone conversations from 2015 allegedly “with voices similar to those of” Joseph Biden and Petro Poroshenko, the US Vice-President and the President of Ukraine at the time. Derkach made his allegations at a press conference in Interfax-Ukraine, a branch of the Russian news agency Interfax, stating that the tapes “testify to the facts of international corruption and state treason at the highest state level.”
Ukraine-U.S. Relations
OP-ED
Yuri Zoria: Ukraine risks losing US support
Vice President Joe Biden holds a virtual campaign event on March 13, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. The scheduled in-person Illinois campaign event was changed to a virtual event because of fears of COVID-19.