Ukraine's Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko attends a news conference with his Netherlands' counterpart Stef Blok in Kiev, Ukraine October 10, 2019. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/File Photo
Reuters: Ukrainian officials will not testify in U.S. impeachment inquiry: foreign minister
MARIUPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainian officials will not testify in the U.S. Congress in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump because Kiev does not want to get involved in the internal affairs of another country, Ukraine’s foreign minister said on Tuesday.
“We don’t have anything to do with this at all,” Vadym Prystaiko told reporters on the sidelines of an investment conference in the port city of Mariupol. “We won’t go there, we won’t comment.”
Democrats are investigating whether there are grounds to impeach Trump over his request to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate a domestic political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden. Biden is a front-runner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
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WNU Editor: As I said in a previous post. Living in the former Soviet Union we would call this impeachment inquiry a "show trial". My fellow Ukrainians also know what a "show trial" is, and they see this impeachment inquiry as a show trial that has a fixed outcome. Bottom line. The Ukraine government wants no part of this impeachment inquiry, and they will not assist in anyway the Democrats in their proceedings. They see President Trump as a close ally (which he is), and they do not share the Democrats view that they were under pressure by President Trump to investigate the Bidens. But while many Ukrainians have a favourable view of President Trump, many (if not all of them) see the Biden family as a symbol of corruption and on how outsiders took advantage of Ukraine in the past. They also know that Biden is a Democrat who has ties to the people who are pushing to impeach President Trump, and that is another reason on why they want no part of this impeachment process.