🧵Several new bits of info for me in this @shustry profile of Derkach. Among them,
Andriy Artemenko, who set up Giuliani’s Dec 2019 trip to Ukraine and apparently lives near DC, “is a longstanding business partner to Erik Prince.” time.com/6052302/andriy…
Andriy Artemenko, who set up Giuliani’s Dec 2019 trip to Ukraine and apparently lives near DC, “is a longstanding business partner to Erik Prince.” time.com/6052302/andriy…
“Artemenko, a Kyiv-born citizen of Canada, had plenty of contacts to share. One of them was Derkach, who told me he has known Artemenko since at least since 2014.”
In months leading up to April FBI raid, “investigators questioned numerous witnesses about Giuliani’s work in Ukraine. Two of those witnesses told me the investigators were especially interested in his ties to Derkach. ‘They wanted everything – every meeting, every text,’
In May, Derkach abruptly canceled a meeting with a Time photographer, saying he had been forced to leave Ukraine in a hurry. Denied he was in Russia. Derkach daughter, who went to university in California and had home nearby, had her visa revoked.
Telizhenko, in this and NYT piece this week, is madly trying to distance himself from Derkach. In January, his US visa was revoked and US bank accounts frozen.
It seems that Giuliani and Derkach have become extremely radioactive, and costly to have been conspiring with, including to each other
Great detail here. Artemenko was arriving to meet the reporter at Trump hotel in DC when of FBI raid on Giuliani broke April 28. “He spent a few moments staring at the TV screens above the lobby bar, which showed footage of federal agents outside Giuliani’s apartment building” 
Story includes this Reuters photo of then-Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin speaking with Derkach’s father, Leonid Derkach, then Ukrainian intel service chief, in April 2000.
*missing a “news” above (when news broke)...
Derkach’s son got kicked out of his private school in Kyev which is affiliated with the US embassy. which he evidently feels is a great injustice.
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