Reports state that the Ukraine has begun an investigation into domestic government officials’ alleged attempts at interfering in the 2016 United States presidential election in order to further then-Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s likelihood of taking the race, the Hill learned from the Ukraine’s top prosecutor during an interview that was aired on Wednesday.
“Today we will launch a criminal investigation about this and we will give legal assessment of this information,” Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko explained to the Hill’s John Solomon.
Breitbart News reports that “the top prosecutor is reportedly investigating a claim from a local member of parliament (MP} that the director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), Artem Sytnyk, attempted to interfere in the 2016 presidential election in the United States to skew the results in favor of Hillary Clinton.”
He later stated, “This member of parliament even attached the audio tape where several men, one of which had a voice similar to the voice of Mr. Sytnyk, discussed the matter.”
The Hill published an editorial piece on Wednesday in which Solomon explained that while the investigation into alleged Trump-Russia collusion begins to fall by the wayside, the Ukrainian prosecutor’s investigation will be delving into “whether his country’s law enforcement apparatus intentionally leaked financial records during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign about then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in an effort to sway the election in favor of Hillary Clinton.”
A United States Department of State (DOS) spokesperson confirmed that the White House is on top of the news reports regarding Sytnyk attempts at helping Clinton in the 2016 election.
The spokesperson explained to the Hill:
We have always emphasized the need for deep, comprehensive, and timely reforms that respond to the demands the Ukrainian people made during the Revolution of Dignity: an end to systemic corruption, faster economic growth, and a European future for all Ukrainians.