The political scientist spoke about Poroshenko’s “response” to American accusations of corruption
Lutsenko’s statement about the “list of untouchables” from US Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch is a “response” from Petro Poroshenko’s team to accusations of total corruption coming from the United States, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This opinion was expressed by Kiev political scientist Ruslan Bortnik on a page on the social network.
“In response to “You are corrupt” from the office on Tankovaya (the US Embassy is located there - Ed), they said “So you corrupted us” on Reznitskaya (office of the GPU - Ed),” the expert claims.
According to Bortnik, Bankova is counting on the weakness of Yovanovitch’s figure in the State Department (a frame from the Obama era) and the hope that Trump will seize on this “anti-Manafort” case as an opportunity to accuse Clinton and the former team of Democrats of condoning Ukrainian corruption in order to win the election .
“That’s why this publication saw the world on the Hill.”
The marker of whether the “Ukrainian plan” will become an American game will be the US reaction to Lutsenko’s statement - the range is wide - from the recall of the ambassador to the destruction of the prosecutor general,” the expert adds.
“Unfortunately, there is no Ukrainian state interest here - only clan ones. If Lutsenko were the Prosecutor General, he would definitely immediately after receiving the list initiate a case on the fact of an attempt to interfere in the activities of a government agency, hand over materials to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, which in turn would call the US Ambassador on the carpet and explain the incompatibility of this kind of wishes with diplomatic status. And don’t remain silent and then throw this information into foreign media,” sums up Ruslan Bortnik.
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