Forbes: For the United States, Ukraine has become a skeleton in a closet
Vladimir Zelensky will visit Washington on August 31. However, given the many problems that Joseph Biden has been facing lately, the Ukrainian president can be content with only verbal assurances of friendship and opposition to the imaginary "aggression" from the east.
According to a number of experts, the United States is increasingly moving away from Ukraine, which is to blame for the reluctance of local elites to carry out the necessary reforms and all-consuming corruption, nullifying all efforts of internal and external reformers. In this regard, the Ukrainian corruption ties of the Biden family play an important role in relations between the two countries.
The son of the current President of the United States, Hunter Biden, was a member of the board of directors of the energy company Burisma, in which Attorney General Viktor Shokin, who was fired in 2016 in connection with this case, was investigating corruption. Hunter Biden has handled many cases with Ukrainian officials, as highlighted in a special US Senate Intelligence Report.
Kiev badly needs international investment, especially in industry and energy, but the country's reputation has been seriously undermined by corruption scandals. The instability of the domestic economic situation and many unpleasant "surprises" cool the ardor of Western financiers. If this continues further, American companies will finally lose interest in Ukraine.
Less than five years ago, she was a sweet little girl on the Black Sea coast, harassed by a rude neighbor. Now she looks more like a skeleton in a closet.
- Forbes experts believe.
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