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https://www.thedailybeast.com/oleksandr-danylyuk-former-top-ukraine-official-says-he-trusted-john-bolton-more-than-anyone
Oleksandr Danylyuk says the requests to investigate the Bidens rattled Zelenskys team and the one person in the administration he trusted was Bolton.
Erin Banco
National Security Reporter
Published Jan. 28, 2020 9:39AM ET
When Volodymyr Zelensky won Ukraines presidential election in April 2019, President Donald Trump was one of the first world leaders to call and congratulate him. For officials inside Ukraine and out, Zelensky represented a chance for the country to rebuild its anti-corruption institutions and a chance for Kyiv to develop better, stronger relationships with Western countries, including the United States.
But in the weeks and months that followed, efforts to construct a partnership between the Zelensky and Trump administrations, one focused on fighting corruption, crumbled. It crumbled in part because the Zelensky team was pulled into an American domestic political fight spurred by Trumps push to have Ukraine investigate his rival Joe Biden, Bidens son Hunter, and supposed interference in the 2016 election. Thats according to Oleksandr Danylyuk, the former chairman of Ukraines National Security and Defense Council, who said the requests rattled Zelenskys team.
Danylyuk spoke to The Daily Beast last week in his first on-the-record conversation since impeachment proceedings began in Washington, saying he resigned from his post in Kyiv in September in part because of the situation with the U.S. When Danylyuk answered my FaceTime call, he appeared to be in his office in Kyiv, with pictures of the city in the background. The former Ukrainian official was supposed to have traveled to the U.S. to meet me but caught a virus at the World Economic Forum in Davos and flew home to recover. (We plan on meeting in person for our second interview.)
Over the course of two hours, Danylyuk laid out his reasons for joining the Zelensky team and why he decided to leave the administration. The former official said his hope was that he would get to change lives as a part of the Zelensky government, helping develop Ukraines anti-corruption institutions and promoting the country as an international powerhouse worthy of respect. Danylyuk, a self-described technocrat, said the U.S.-Ukraine shake-up set an uncomfortable background but that the two countries can still forge ahead with a new, better roadmap.
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Oleksandr Danylyuk says the requests to investigate the Bidens rattled Zelenskys team and the one person in the administration he trusted was Bolton.
Erin Banco
National Security Reporter
Published Jan. 28, 2020 9:39AM ET
When Volodymyr Zelensky won Ukraines presidential election in April 2019, President Donald Trump was one of the first world leaders to call and congratulate him. For officials inside Ukraine and out, Zelensky represented a chance for the country to rebuild its anti-corruption institutions and a chance for Kyiv to develop better, stronger relationships with Western countries, including the United States.
But in the weeks and months that followed, efforts to construct a partnership between the Zelensky and Trump administrations, one focused on fighting corruption, crumbled. It crumbled in part because the Zelensky team was pulled into an American domestic political fight spurred by Trumps push to have Ukraine investigate his rival Joe Biden, Bidens son Hunter, and supposed interference in the 2016 election. Thats according to Oleksandr Danylyuk, the former chairman of Ukraines National Security and Defense Council, who said the requests rattled Zelenskys team.
Danylyuk spoke to The Daily Beast last week in his first on-the-record conversation since impeachment proceedings began in Washington, saying he resigned from his post in Kyiv in September in part because of the situation with the U.S. When Danylyuk answered my FaceTime call, he appeared to be in his office in Kyiv, with pictures of the city in the background. The former Ukrainian official was supposed to have traveled to the U.S. to meet me but caught a virus at the World Economic Forum in Davos and flew home to recover. (We plan on meeting in person for our second interview.)
Over the course of two hours, Danylyuk laid out his reasons for joining the Zelensky team and why he decided to leave the administration. The former official said his hope was that he would get to change lives as a part of the Zelensky government, helping develop Ukraines anti-corruption institutions and promoting the country as an international powerhouse worthy of respect. Danylyuk, a self-described technocrat, said the U.S.-Ukraine shake-up set an uncomfortable background but that the two countries can still forge ahead with a new, better roadmap.
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Zelinsky never felt pressure? His team says otherwise.
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Top Ukraine Official: I Trusted Bolton More Than Anyone (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Jan 2020
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(4,553 posts)1. Thanks for posting this!
I just discovered the article in my morning read session.
I hope this has legs.
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(25,982 posts)2. K&R for visibility