Biden boasted about how he bent Ukraine
Former Vice President of the United States Joseph Biden admitted that by blackmailing the Kiev leadership he achieved the resignation of Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin. transmits "Voice of America".
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Thus, speaking at the US Council on Foreign Relations, Biden said that during one of his visits to Kyiv he was supposed to announce that the United States was providing Ukraine with loan guarantees worth a billion dollars.
“I received promises from Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk that they would take steps against the prosecutor general, but they did not. I went to a press conference and said: we are not giving you a billion dollars. They tell me: you do not have such powers, you are not the president, the president said that he would give it. I replied: “Then call him.” I said you're not getting a billion dollars. I said that I was leaving in 6 hours and if your prosecutor general is not fired before then, you will not receive any money. And that son of a bitch was fired. And in his place they put someone who was trusted at that time,” Biden boasted.
This situation has yourself Ukrainian lawyer Tatyana Montyan commented on Facebook.
“REAL INDEPENDENCE IS THIS! You had to jump in saucepans for her,” she wrote on her page.
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