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  • Ukrainian gas chief meets with prosecutors probing Giuliani

    DESMOND BUTLER and MICHAEL BIESECKER|Dec 5, 2019

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors have interviewed the head of Ukraine's state-owned gas company as part of an investigation into the business dealings of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and two of Giuliani's business associates. Andriy Kobolyev met voluntarily with representatives of the Justice Department, according lawyer Lanny Breuer, who represents the chief executive officer of Naftogaz, Ukraine's biggest natural gas provider. "The Department of Justice requested an interview with Andriy Kobolyev," said B...

  • Ukrainian leader felt Trump pressure before taking office

    DESMOND BUTLER and MICHAEL BIESECKER|Oct 24, 2019

    KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — More than two months before the phone call that launched the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, Ukraine's newly elected leader was already worried about pressure from the U.S. president to investigate his Democratic rival Joe Biden. Volodymyr Zelenskiy gathered a small group of advisers on May 7 in Kyiv for a meeting that was supposed to be about his nation's energy needs. Instead, the group spent most of the three-hour discussion talking about how to navigate the insistence from Trump and his personal l...