Lawfare Daily: Corruption, Coverups, and Crisis in Domestic Ukrainian Politics
5/15/202646 min
Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina sits down with Danylo Mokryk, a war crimes investigator at the Kyiv Independent and the author of a YouTube blog about domestic Ukrainian Politics, to talk about the latest corruption saga engulfing the Ukrainian government—and why, despite so many arrows pointing toward Zelensky personally, no one is calling for his removal.
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Danylo Mokryk· Guest1:09
[gentle music] [upbeat music] She apparently knows, uh, about him and about his role in this whole process, and this leads strongly to believe that, well, President