Rudy Giuliani, who says the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine conspired with George Soros against President Donald Trump, has met regularly with Ukraine's prosecutor general in recent months.
Associates of President Donald Trump are bringing Ukraine into political battles with Democrats, in a move that may have led to the early dismissal of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, experts say.
In the wake of these meetings, Lutsenko has been publicly criticizing ambassador Yovanovitch, who was appointed by the Obama administration. Conservative commentators like Laura Ingraham also reported that Republicans were concerned that ambassador Yovanovitch was biased against Trump. The president’s son Donald Trump Jr. tweeted in favor of the ambassador’s removal, calling her “Obama’s Ambassador to Ukraine.
A State Department spokesman told Newsweek that the ambassador’s departure would coincide with the appointment of Ukraine’s new President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who beat incumbent President Petro Poroshenko in elections held in April. “By throwing a career diplomat under the bus, Pompeo has shown he’s willing to put partisanship above the interests of the Department. Yovanovitch has been with State for three decades and served two ambassadorships under the George W Bush administration before being appointed as envoy in Ukraine by President Obama,” Carpenter added.
But experts with knowledge of the case say that Giuliani’s version of the story is misleading because Shokin was not responsible for opening the investigation into Burisma. Although an investigation was re-opened within the prosecutor general’s office during Shokin’s tenure, it was done at the request of Ukrainian lawmakers and Shokin himself did little to move the case forward, experts say. By the time Shokin was dismissed in 2016, the case had already been abandoned.
Giuliani has accused Kaleniuk’s organization of being a wing of George Soros that is used to attack Soros’ enemies in Eastern Europe, echoing anti-Soros conspiracy theories often propagated by the far-right. The anti-corruption action center does receive some funding from the Open Society Foundation, which Soros founded, as do many civil society organizations in Ukraine and elsewhere.
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