BBC to pay damages to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko after he sued the broadcaster over an incorrect report
28 March 2019 - 17:00A policeman stands guard by the office of the Ukrainian president near a cardboard representing a tank bearing a portrait of President Petro Poroshenko set up by supporters and reading"Truth with Poroshenko" ahead of Ukraine's March 31 presidential elections. Picture: AFP/SERGEI SUPINSKY
The article on the BBC website claimed that Kiev gave Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen a “secret payment of at least $400,000” to “fix talks” at the White House in June 2017. Poroshenko was elected in 2014 after Ukrainians took to the streets to oust his Kremlin-backed, graft-tainted predecessor.
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