Recent reports concerning possible dates of a meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and U.S. President Donald Trump are misleading, and Borys Tisenhausen, who voiced this information, is not a member of Zelenskiy’s team, the Ukrainian presidential office said on June 4.
“A number of media outlets on June 3 started circulating an interview with Borys Tisenhausen, introducing him as a non-staff adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. The reports mentioned possible dates of a meeting between [Zelenskiy] and U.S. President Donald Trump. This considered, we would like to inform the Ukrainian public and journalists that Borys Tisenhausen is neither a staff member nor a non-staff member of Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s team, and therefore please treat the said information as fake,” the presidential office said on Facebook on June 4.
When asked when Zelenskiy and Trump could meet in an interview shown in the Vasha Svoboda (“Your Liberty”) program on June 3 evening, Tisenhausen, introduced as a non-staff adviser to the Ukrainian president, said: “Most likely, the meeting will take place after one between Donald Trump and [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, who are planning to meet during the G20 summit [on June 28-29, 2019]. But the very fact that the Donald Trump administration was first to invite Zelensky to the U.S. for a meeting shows that the U.S. has offered Zelenskiy some credit of trust.”
The Ukrainian presidential office told Interfax earlier that it had received an invitation from Trump to Zelenskiy on May 30 for him to pay an official visit to the U.S. “Such a trip has been planned,” it said.
