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Ukraine's Ex-President Discussed Investments with Giuliani

Associated Press

   KYIV - Ukraine's former president said Wednesday he discussed
   investments with President Donald Trump's attorney, Rudy Giuliani, in
   2017, but that he never discussed Ukrainian companies with any U.S.
   official.

   Like many Ukrainians, former President Petro Poroshenko is trying to
   distance himself from the U.S. impeachment inquiry into Trump,
   triggered by a phone call between the American leader and Poroshenko's
   successor, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
   "We definitely do not want to be involved in the political process
   inside the United States," Poroshenko, now a member of parliament, told
   reporters.
   Poroshenko said he met Giuliani in 2017 as a "friend of Ukraine" and
   they discussed "political support and investment" but nothing else. He
   wouldn't elaborate.
   "We never ever spoke about commercial companies" with Trump, former
   President Barack Obama, current Democratic presidential candidate Joe
   Biden, or "any U.S. officials," said Poroshenko, who led Ukraine from
   2014 to 2019.

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