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When Ukraine got dragged into a scandal that could end in the impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump, it didn’t seem like good news — to put it mildly — for the country’s anti-corruption crusader president.

Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s comedian-turned-president elected by a landslide in April, had promised his supporters he would weed out rampant corruption and drain the proverbial swamp.

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