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Ukraine is no stranger to controversy. It’s not exactly a secret that Ukraine was, and so far remains, deeply corrupt – but aside from oligarch efforts to burnish their own international image, that corruption has stayed mostly domestic. However, new allegations from U.S. President Donald Trump are pushing a Ukraine corruption story – a daily feature of headlines in the country – onto the international stage, with implications for not only Ukraine’s reputation abroad, but its very own national security, as Ukraine remains locked in a conflict with Russia for the sixth year going.

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