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Nov 1, 2019 • 6 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
.@IgnatiusPost raises important questions. This year's quid pro quo could have been an encore performance of a similar 2017 effort by Trump & Giuliani to condition a White House visit & military assistance on (stopping) investigations as a favor for Trump. washingtonpost.com/opinions/did-t…
In 2017, the White House visit was for Zelensky's predecessor, Petro Poroshenko. In both cases, the Ukrainian gov't needed public US support as a signal to Russia. In both cases, Giuliani was in Kyiv beforehand seeking favors beneficial to Trump around investigations into 2016.
The main difference is that in 2017 Mueller was in the driver's seat of US investigations into 2016, so Trump's preference seems to have been that Ukraine NOT cooperate.

In 2019, with AG Bill Barr in charge, the favor sought by Trump was that Ukraine SHOULD cooperate with Barr.
This article doesn't explicitly mention two other possible puzzle pieces. One is Trump's Dec. 2017 decision to give Ukraine lethal assistance, which @jonathanchait called a likely quid pro quo (@IgnatiusPost links to the relevant @AndrewKramerNYT article). nymag.com/intelligencer/…
There were also claims from Ukrainian intel. sources that bribes were required to get a full meeting with Trump (BBC withdrew the story after Poroshenko sued for libel, but it sounds like BBC stood by the broader report, just not Poroshenko's involvement). theguardian.com/media/2019/mar…
If a 2017 quid pro quo indeed conditioned national security assistance and a White House visit upon personal favors for the president, it would prove a pattern of repeatedly abusing power to pressure Ukraine into interfering in American democracy.

Congress should get answers.

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Oct 17, 2023
This news out of Kyiv today is just as important as ATACMS but will get far less international attention because it sounds technical and boring.

The parliament just adopted an anti-corruption measure (lifelong PEP status) that meets the last big precondition for EU accession. 🧵
This reform brings Ukraine in compliance with the @FATFNews standard of making banks closely scrutinize the finances of politically exposed persons or PEPs (i.e., former public officials who could benefit from corruption) for the rest of their lives, rather than just three years. Image
As background, see this article in @EuropeanPravda.

PEP reform was "the last main obstacle to the [EU] negotiations" and Zelensky's government was having a hard time getting its proposal through the parliament due to opposition among lawmakers who don't want to be lifelong PEPs. Image
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Sep 26, 2023
Even as Ukrainian generals and soldiers fight to expel Russian invaders, a second army of state bureaucrats and civil society experts in Kyiv has been quietly mobilizing to win the peace.

Two new reports from @gmfus, @brdo_ukraine, @IAAUkraine, & @RISE_Ukraine_ map these actors.
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As we've spoken to officials planning for a Marshall Plan for Ukraine, we've realized they often don't have a clear picture of all the new government bodies and civil society coalitions that have sprout up in Kyiv to prepare for reconstruction.

That's why we did this research.
Our first report, led by @brdo_ukraine, focuses on Ukrainian government institutions. ⬇️gmfus.org/news/kyivs-mob…
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Sep 26, 2023
Wow! I had heard that this was in the works, but the details are strikingly strong. 💪

Good of the @WhiteHouse for sending the G7 donor coordination platform this list of 25 reforms that Ukraine must implement in order to continue receiving US assistance. news.yahoo.com/white-house-le…



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Two of my favorite aspects of this list are how the priorities are sequenced over the next 18 months and how they've prioritized reforms to give the specialized anti-corruption agencies more resources and authorities, with specific line items for SAPO, NABU, NACP, HACC, and ARMA. Image
If you think that's an alphabet soup of esoteric bureaucracy, Putin disagrees. In his vitriolic speech three days before fully invading, he named these Ukrainian anti-corruption institutions and bemoaned their leadership selection processes and US support. en.kremlin.ru/events/preside…
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Jun 20, 2023
NEW REPORT: Ukraine is halfway through a hero’s journey with a dual conflict against Russia and oligarchy.

Ukrainian anti-corruption is vital to the rules-based order. @NormEisen, Cameron Bertron, and I offer 25 ways stakeholders in that order can help. 🧵gmfus.org/news/ukraines-…
We start by setting the record straight on Ukrainian anti-corruption.

Here's what the Kremlin and its useful idiots leave out from their narrative about corruption in Ukraine:

Never in history has a nation built such a sweeping array of anti-corruption institutions in a decade. Image
This success drove Putin to invade. See what he did on the date of Feb 21 – a year apart, in 2021 & 2022.

2/21/2021: Started mobilizing “large-scale exercises” hours after Medvedchuk’s assets seized

2/21/2022: Named Ukraine’s rule-of-law institutions in his vitriolic war speech Image
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Sep 15, 2022
Over the past 24 hours, I’ve been asked by journalists all over the world whether my research suggests their country might be among the two dozen countries where Russian money has infiltrated politics. Nowhere is this question coming up more than in Italy. reuters.com/world/europe/r…
The US intel assessment reportedly names countries included in my research, like Montenegro & Madagascar, plus some new ones, like Albania, Ecuador, & an unnamed Asian country (where the Russian ambassador gave millions in cash to a presidential candidate).washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
To see the 33 countries identified in my report on #CovertForeignMoney as having receiving political financing from Kremlin-linked actors, see where the red arrows point to in the map below. One of these target countries is Italy. Image
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Sep 13, 2022
Strong move for the USG to disclose this information, showing how the aggressive approach to declassifying Kremlin covert ops—which worked well in the run-up to the war in Ukraine—can be broadly extended to informing voters of assaults on democracy. 👏👏👏washingtonpost.com/politics/us-ru…
The intelligence community is right to point to 2014 as the year when the Kremlin dramatically escalated the scope of its financial interference operations.

Putin authorized campaigns against Europe in 2014, the United States in 2016, and Africa in 2018.
Half of all financial interference in the world involves Russia targeting Europe, but China does it too against Australia, New Zealand, and Czechia. And both regimes bribe African leaders. The most common target of malign finance—hit more than 25 times—is the United States.
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