Hes one of the more influential officials in the ukraine, correct . Yes. I believe hes one of the few that stands with lutsenko and the zelensky administration. Yes, thats correct. Look k back at hing back a , hindsight, who was doing what . He was out to get him. He said some nasty things. Sometimes that happens on social media. And are you asking me whether it is appropriate, probably not. But i would say that minister ivankoff has been as well as others both in lutsenko and
zelensky administration have been a good partner to the United States as i think i told you before. Hes a practical man and looking for partners and getting the job done. I am shocked that social media would be the sight of negative comments. You certainly can understand that the president aware of the ministers statement and aware of what mr. Lutsenko was up to and these other elements that we have discussed, there are forms of reasonable bases to wonder why there are influential elements to the ukrainian establ
there is the congrats call and the problematic call in july. one of the reasons we are here is what happened between april and july. but, there was a read-out put out by the white house at the time the april congratutory call was made. now that in fact does not appear anywhere in that call. i want to ask you ambassador, why would the white house put out an inaccurate reading? why would the white house represent that the president said something about corruption when he said nothing about corruption in that call or the one in july? i can t answer that question and i don t have the visibility