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Ukrainian intelligence agencies blocked former President Petro Poroshenko from leaving the country to meet with Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán over an alleged Kremlin plot to diminish Western support for Ukraine’s war effort against Russia. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced on Saturday that it was behind the decision from the Verkhovna Rada parliament in Kyiv to block a planned trip to Budapest by Petro Poroshenko, who served as the president of Ukraine for five years after coming to power on the heels of a Western-backed coup against his predecessor Viktor Yanukovych over his decision to reject EU demands of...

According to our source, the possibility of this unannounced meeting was one of the reasons for the parliamentary leadership's cancellation of Poroshenko's trip.The Ukrainian leadership believes that a meeting between the former president and the Hungarian PM could further damage Ukraine-Hungary relations, which are currently in a crisis.Orban is planning to block negotiations for Ukraine's entry into the European Union and the allocation of EUR 50 billion ($55 billion) in financial aid to Kyiv—both issues to be discussed at the upcoming EU summit in December.

Newly-unearthed emails reveal that Joe Biden used several personal emails, all bearing false names, during his vice presidency to discuss foreign business with his son Hunter. As reported by Just The News, one such email was ...

Newly discovered emails prove beyond all doubt that the “true purpose” of Hunter Biden’s lucrative deal with a Ukrainian energy company was for Hunter to get “high-ranking US officials” to visit Ukraine and persuade the nation’s leaders to “close down” all criminal “cases/pursuits against” the firm’s primary owner, a notoriously corrupt oligarch with ties to Russia. Documentation of this illegal scheme begins with a widely overlooked email on Hunter’s laptop in which a top executive of the Ukrainian firm describes the plan. Now, emails uncovered by Just Facts prove that Hunter and his partners: explicitly agreed to this deal. concealed...

Leaked audio from days after the 2016 election, before Trump’s inauguration—Biden calls Poroshenko, then head of state of Ukraine, and threatens him with assassination if he cooperates with the incoming Trump administration.

The information presented below confirms the participation of each of the listed individuals in the Derkach tapes disinformation campaign, demonstrates the connection between them, as well as the coordinated nature of their actions. On January 11, 2021, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on a number of Ukrainian politicians and civil servants for interfering in the US presidential elections by spreading disinformation. The decision concerned the individuals involved in the publication, legitimization and distribution of the disinformation concerning so-called “Derkach tapes”, in which allegedly Joe Biden and Petro Poroshenko discuss issues of Ukrainian politics and raise the topic of Burisma....

WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest filing from special counsel John Durham in his investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe has been seized on by the conservative media and Donald Trump himself as vindication of the former president’s oft-repeated claims that he was “spied” on. One headline said Durham had alleged that the campaign of Hillary Clinton paid to “infiltrate” servers at Trump Tower and the White House — though that verb is not used in the filing — and Trump suggested that Democrats had been caught “illegally spying” in a scandal worse than Watergate. Neither claim is exactly...

Hunter Biden referred to Massimov in a 2016 email as a "close friend." Former Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov, a known Biden family business associate, was detained Saturday on suspicion of treason, according to an announcement from the Kazakhstan National Security Committee, a body he chaired until this past week. Local media report at least 164 people have died as a result of riots that broke out Jan. 2 following an increase in fuel prices. An unverified photo shows then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden flanked by then-Prime Minister Massimov and Kazakh oligarch Kenes Rakishev in the...

The State Bureau of Investigation said that the suspicion against former President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko concerned treason and smuggling of coal from the temporarily occupied territories of Donbas, the press service of the State Bureau of Investigation reports. "The Fifth President of Ukraine has been informed about the suspicion of treason and aiding and abetting terrorist organizations," the statement reads. Poroshenko, according to the investigation, facilitated the activities of Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics terrorist organizations, acting with the prior conspiracy of a group of citizens, including representatives of Russia's top leadership. Assistance was provided by payments to militant-controlled...

All persons who are involved in organizing the political persecution of fifth president of Ukraine, MP (the European Solidarity faction) Petro Poroshenko, will sooner or later be held accountable for this, the lawyers of the MP said during a briefing at Interfax-Ukraine. According to the press service of the European Solidarity on Wednesday, Poroshenko's representatives noted that law enforcement agencies, pursuant to court decisions, were forced to resume proceedings on deliberately false reports of a crime, as well as against the security forces of the State Bureau of Investigations, that organized the storming of Ivan Honchar museum. "This is about...

Lawyers of fifth President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko claim that NABU (National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine) has closed the case of alleged pillage of USD 100,000. The defendants in this case were Poroshenko himself, U.S. ex-President Barack Obama and the incumbent President Joe Biden. Poroshenko's lawyer Ihor Holovan said so as quoted by Interfax-Ukraine news agency. "As we found out, on January 25, National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine closed the criminal case registered on the appeal filed by an MP (Renat Kuzmin, - 112 International) and a group of lawmakers...", he said. The lawyer added that in December 2019, MP...

In Ukraine, another two criminal proceedings registered against fifth president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and new U.S. President Joe Biden as Ukrayinska Pravda reported citing Poroshenko’s lawyer Ihor Holovan. “On January 22, two days after the inauguration of the U.S. president, two new criminal proceedings were registered concerning the interference in the activity of the ex-prosecutor general of Ukraine Pshonka from the side of fifth president of Ukraine Poroshenko and current U.S. President Biden,” Holovan said. According to him, the proceedings were opened at the request of MP Andriy Derkach who was recently sanctioned by the U.S. On May 19,...

In a conversation with former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko made no secret of his desire to “sell” the visa-free regime to the Ukrainian people and said that the U.S. government “plays an enormous role” in establishing peace in Ukraine. It became known from the next series of recordings of conversations between Poroshenko and Biden which were published on September 16 by the MP Andriy Derkach. The recording was made on November 16, 2016, when Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, as Strana agency reports. Biden: Hey, Patro. It’s Joe. How are...

Seven former U.S. ambassadors to Ukraine, including two who testified against Trump during the impeachment sham, have penned a letter to the Ukrainian government, essentially begging them not to investigate the Biden tapes CDMedia broke earlier this month. Disgraced Ambassador Yovanovich who was fired by President Trump for corruption, and impeachment witness William Taylor signed the statement. The statement says nothing about the Ukrainian government’s active and verified role for the Clinton campaign against Candidate Trump during the 2016 presidential election. Seven former US ambassadors to Ukraine said that the publication of films allegedly recorded by Petro Poroshenko and Joseph...

The authenticity of the recording of the phone conversations between the former U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden and the 5th president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko can be established by the court. The Chairman of the Political Council of the Opposition Platform - For Life Party, MP Viktor Medvedchuk stated this on air of Pulse talk show on 112 Ukraine TV Channel. “The actions, of which we found out from the leaked recordings of Mr. Biden and Mr. Poroshenko’s conversations, these actions have signs of a number of serious criminal offenses. I can talk about this as a lawyer. This is...

Last year Joe Biden bragged about how he coerced Ukraine into firing its top prosecutor Victor Shokin by threatening that the Obama administration would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees from them. While this type of interference in a foreign government by the then-Vice President of the United States is highly inappropriate in itself, what makes it even worse is that the prosecutor he got fired was probing a firm for which his son Hunter Biden worked. Yesterday an audiotape has been released by a Ukrainian politician which details conversations between corrupt and discredited former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko...

An audio tape was released by Creative Destruction Media where Joe Biden is pressuring former Ukrainian President Poroshenko to fire former Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.The men discuss the firing of then Prosecutor Shokin for corrupt reasons, in order to prevent an investigation into Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and other criminal actions.Victor Shokin was investigating Joe Biden’s son Hunter at the time. This presentation with the phone call audio was delivered earlier today in Ukraine.Creative Destruction Media has the transcript. From the Video——-CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO Poroshenko: (7:10 mark) I have some good news… Yesterday I went and seat...

These facts cannot be disputed: 1. Former Vice President Joe Biden admitted and bragged on TV that he threatened to withhold one billion dollars in American foreign aid to Ukraine if Ukraine did not fire the prosecutor investigating Burisma. Burisma was paying Hunter Biden, son of the Joe Biden, over $50,000 per month as a board member of Burisma. There is no dirt to dig up. Joe Biden admitted to the dirt. 2. The Obama-Biden administration did not supply military aid to Ukraine when Ukraine needed the aid against Russia. This was admitted by the acting ambassador to the Ukraine,...

Marie Yovanovitch, who testified during House impeachment hearings against President Trump, will be retiring from the U.S. foreign service less than a year after her removal as ambassador to Ukraine. A source familiar with the situation confirmed Yovanovitch's exit on Friday.

[caption id="attachment_1512" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Image source: Wired.com[/caption] See that over-the-top, anti-Obama comment on Facebook or your favorite blog?  It could be a paid Russian troll.  See the picture above?  He's serving a life sentence without parole because he started an illegal website.  He claims to be a Libertarian, but he certainly made a ton of money (the Feds claim over $100 million) selling--well, everything, sort of like Amazon, but much smaller and very much in the shadows of the "dark web." What do Russian trolls have to do with a guy in prison for life?  One of them was caught...