This afternoon’s interview with NewsX World dealt with two topics. First (starting at minute 3.40) was the upcoming visit of Zelensky to Miami for a meeting with Donald Trump and how on the way Zelensky has stopped off in Canada for talks with Prime Minister Mark Carney. While in Canada, he will hold a virtual conference with his key supporters in Europe to ‘align’ their position on the peace plan that Zelensky is bringing to the States. The second segment (starting at minute 9.45) dealt with the latest corruption scandals in Kiev, where investigators of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU, in Ukrainian) today descended on the parliament (Verkhovna Rada) to make arrests, said to include two close associates of Zelensky. News of NABU’s planned visit to the Rada resulted in all but 30 deputies staying away. There also were scuffles outside the Rada building between NABU personnel and security people. As I say in this interview, NABU, with encouragement from the Trump administration is now circling Zelensky, picking off his associates as a preliminary to ‘nailing’ the President himself.
Regrettably there were technical problems with our communications in the first part of the interview which are not apparent in the video, but they cleared away for the second part.