A memo from the call between President Trump and President Zelenskiy has dismayed Ukrainian anti-corruption activists.
The president of Ukraine could have been forgiven for hoping President Donald Trump would back his fight against endemic corruption, and support his country in its grinding war against Russia-sponsored separatists.
"The strategic partnership between Ukraine and the United States was always to make sure that Ukraine carries out reforms, that it is able to deter Russia, and has a rule-based government," she said."But here, in this conversation between Trump and Zelenskiy, there was hardly any discussion about Russia, nor about the need for Ukraine to really build an independent judiciary."
Daria Kaleniuk said she was astonished to see the very tactics Washington has historically decried being deployed by its current president.
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