It’s the first big conflict inside President Volodymyr Zelensky’s party, and it’s a doozy. Eleven lawmakers stand accused of accepting bribes. Now the president wants them to take polygraph tests. We explain what’s going on.
Sergii Gorbatuk, who leads investigations into the murder of more than 100 protesters during Ukraine’s 2014 EuroMaidan Revolution and other Maidan-related cases, has been fired from the Prosecutor General’s Office. His dismissal raises concerns about the fate of these investigations.
The New York Times has reported that the Ukrainian government knew the Trump administration was freezing $391 million of military assistance in early August. This undermines one of the White House’s key defenses against charges that the freeze was used by Trump to secure politically motivated investigations in Ukraine.
The Washington Post has reported that the Trump administration repeatedly tried to cut aid programs that fight corruption in Ukraine and other countries. Trump has previously claimed that attempts to convince Kyiv to open an investigation in the Ukrainian company where former Vice President Joe Biden’s son worked were motivated by concerns about corruption — a claim largely at odds with this new information.
Ukrainian law enforcement has uncovered a criminal operation smuggling migrants from Turkey to the European Union, particularly Greece and Italy. The scheme was based in southern Ukraine. We explain how it worked.
