As Trump investigation circles back to Ukraine and Manafort, another whistleblower walks the streets, famous but out of a job by melissarossi199
KIEV — Tall, wiry, and bespectacled Serhiy Leshchenko, instantly recognizable on the streets and in the cafes of Kiev, can barely take ten steps in public without being stopped for a handshake or a selfie. Leshchenko was the whistleblower before the whistleblower : a Ukrainian journalist and former member of Parliament who put Ukraine on the U.S.
The reason: Rudy Giuliani, who’d planned to visit the incoming president, but whose gesture was rebuffed when Zelensky got wind of the political favors Giuliani planned to request. Leshchenko’s suspicions are supported by reporting from Murray Waas, writing for the New York Review of Books in late September, who wrote that lawyers representing Manafort and Trump have been meeting to discuss strategies and possible rationales for the president to pardon his former campaign manager, including discrediting those who brought the damning information about Manafort to light.
“What’s happening now in the U.S. is actually undermining bipartisan support for Ukraine—and making it even a toxic word to talk about.” Ukrainian political analysts wonder whether Trump is even on their side, and see his ambivalence as effectively kneecapping a hopeful new administration in a fledgling democracy. “The U.S. president and State Department leadership don’t look like Ukrainian allies,” says Nataliya Gumenyuk, who hosts a political broadcast from Kiev called The Sunday Show. “They look like they’re on the other side of this war with Russia.
And to Ukrainians that support isn’t so obvious at the moment, especially after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and began restricting free movement of Ukrainian vessels around the Black Sea. Kaleniuk, for one, wouldn’t mind if a U.S. Navy fleet showed up on occasion to keep Russia in line.
In February, 2014 Yanukovych fled — to Russia, of course. Having lost its proxy leader in the Ukrainian capital, Russian forces invaded the Crimean peninsula and annexed it, an annexation not recognized by most of the world. And then it began kicking up problems in the eastern region known as Donbas.
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