In what looks to be a staged, desperate and transparent attempt to win favor with Washington, the administration of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is moving harshly against those with the dirt on the Biden family deals with Burisma. On Nov. 14, Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) announced the jailing of a national legislator, who was charged with treason and carrying out a Russian disinformation operation. (A source at the SBU Security Service identified the lawmaker as Oleksandr Dubinsky.) The SBI statement charges that the lawmaker “carried out information-subversive activities in favor of the Russian Federation” intended to destabilize and discredit Ukraine. The issue is that Dubinsky is being charged with providing evidence, back in 2019, that the Biden family had dirty dealings in Ukraine.
The SBU has also implicated two former Ukrainian officials in the “pro-Russia” scheme: ex-lawmaker Andrii Derkach and former prosecutor Kostiantyn Kulyk. All three worked with then Rudolph Giuliani in December 2019 in providing information about the Biden family schemes in Ukraine. CNN notes that the U.S. government previously sanctioned Dubinsky, Derkach and Kulyk, accusing them of being affiliated with a “Russia-linked foreign influence network” that tried to interfere in the 2020 election.
Giuliani had met both with Dubinsky and with Derkach. The SBU said that Derkach fled Ukraine and that Kulyk is in hiding somewhere outside of Ukraine. Kulyk was a senior Ukrainian prosecutor who worked under then Prosecutor General Lutsenko in the investigation of Burisma and had written a dossier on the Bidens activities.
