Prime Minister Honcharuk offers to resign, Zelensky asks him to stay
After four months in office, Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk handed in a resignation letter to the president after audio recordings of Honcharuk’s closed meeting with several ministers were leaked online. Zelensky rejected the letter, calling for an investigation of the leak instead.
Zelensky gives law enforcement 2 weeks to find source of Honcharuk recording
President Volodymyr Zelensky gathered heads of Ukraine’s law enforcement and security agencies to demand an investigation of the recent leak.
Prosecutor General Riaboshapka’s house cleaning
55.5% of 1,339 prosecutors have lost their jobs, but will the clean up bring justice for Ukraine?
Parnas on the Yovanovitch smear campaign
Lev Parnas, the man partially responsible for a smear campaign that led to the firing of former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, wants to apologize.
The EBRD’s $1.1 billion investment in Ukraine
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development invested more than $1 billion in Ukraine in 2019 across industries including banking, agriculture and pharmaceuticals.
Former PrivatBank executives, shareholders sue Ukraine
Lawsuits filed against the State Deposit Guarantee Fund, the Finance Ministry and state-owned PrivatBank denounce the bank’s 2016 nationalization.
From the archives
As leaked audio recordings potentiate Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk’s resignation, look back at another leak – this time surrounding oligarch Dmitry Firtash, who was revealed to have concealed large portions of his wealth in offshore bank accounts amid a divorce, which we covered in our June 14, 2013 edition.
Firtash, who has been described as an accomplice of Russian organized crime and is wanted in Chicago on charges of bribery was allegedly involved in providing false information about the Bidens involvement with Ukrainian gas company Burisma, which according to Lev Parnas was a deal set up for Firtash to avoid extradition to the United States.
