Ukraine is getting itself into US election troubles

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By Pavlo Fedykovych 27-05-2020

Ukraine is losing friends: among other mistakes, by playing internal politics, the country’s President has taken sides in the US elections, which may be disastrous for the country in the future, writes Pavlo Fedykovych.

Pavlo Fedykovych is a College of Europe graduate and Ukrainian journalist published by CNN, BBC, The Irish Times, The Independent, The Guardian and other foreign media.

As the world battles coronavirus, the geopolitical games don’t stop. But if the European countries seem to have only one invisible infectious enemy to fight, Ukraine’s conflict with the Russia-backed separatists in the east is still ongoing.

And as usual, the country’s sad death stats apart from those lost to COVID-19 include those losing their lives daily on the frontlines of occupied Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Thus the Ukrainian situation is twice harder, the country has to deal with the pandemic on one hand and Russian aggression on the other.

“I don’t trust anyone at all.” This phrase that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a Time interview illustrates well the country’s place in the world’s geopolitics today as well as his foreign policy approach.

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