He had “a lot of Ukrainian friends” – the US President in the controversial telephone conversation, said with his Ukrainian counterpart Selenskyj. Behind it could hide DW searches some well-known people.
The Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Selenskyj and US President, Donald Trump
Donald Trump was never in the Ukraine and is not interested in the country. In addition, the US President, the former Soviet Republic accused to have his election campaign in 2016 sabotaged. At that time, information from Kiev led to the resignation of his wahlkamp heads of Paul Manafort, who advised the Pro-Russian party of regions (PR) in the Ukraine and allegedly illegal money to get there. Against this Background, trump’s relation with the then Ukrainian President, Petro Poroshenko, was reluctant. In the phone call with Poroshenko’s successor, Volodymyr Selenskyj in July, which has now triggered a scandal, not a division of Trump with compliments: “This is a great country. I have many Ukrainian friends that are incredible people.”
Viktor Pinchuk
Trumps Ukrainian Connections include those who know him, and those who have acquired his real estate. The most well-known in the first category, the billionaire Viktor Pinchuk is. With his name Trumps on the subject of Ukraine is one of the first public appearances
Viktor Pinchuk
connected. The former view of part of the rich, candidates for the Republican candidacy in the presidential election took place in September of 2015, via video unlock at the YES Forum. This was a private event of Pinchuk, in the case of the Western politicians and experts on the relation of the Ukraine to the West is discussed.
In Ukraine, Pinchuk is one of those who are called oligarchs. He is counted in a range of assets, rankings of the richest Ukrainians. The 58-year-old son-in-law of former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma comes from Dnipro (formerly Dnipropetrovsk), has a company for the manufacture of pipes and a media group including TV channels, STB and ICTV.
Trumps appearance lasted around 20 minutes and cost Pinchuk according to media reports, $ 150,000. If you have interests in common, nothing is known. The questions during the forum, Douglas Schoen, an American journalist, political analyst and commentator at trump’s favorite station, Fox News noted. Schoen works for a long time for Pinchuk and is registered with the U.S. Department of justice as its official Lobbyist. Trump said at the time that he knew “a lot of people,
the life in Ukraine”, calling them “fantastic” and praised Pinchuk: “Victor is a special person and a special entrepreneur. When he was visiting me, I said that I can probably learn more from him than he from me.” Trump also what he repeated four years later in the phone call with Selenskyj said, namely, that European countries, including Germany, would do little for Ukraine.
Pavlo Fuks
Another well-known Ukrainians with contacts to Trump is a smaller caliber than Pinchuk, however, about the Connections between the two is more known. It is Pavlo Fuks, a 47-jährigeren entrepreneur and millionaire from the Eastern Ukrainian Kharkiv, was long active in Russia and there is a large real estate company founded. In an Interview with Bloomberg, Fuks said he had met Trump in 2005, and several times with him and his children, Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. – hit. It went to the idea to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, according to Fuks. The Deal was not concluded, allegedly because Trump had demanded according to Fuks too high a price.
Fuks currently lives in Ukraine and is in Russia on a sanctions list, the Moscow had introduced as a response to Kiev’s punitive measures. It is known that in February of 2017 Fuks was one of the Ukrainians who had traveled to trump’s inauguration. At the ceremony he wasn’t going but.
Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump
In the autumn of the same year, Fuks a visit to the former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, to Kharkiv. Giuliani is trump’s personal attorney and now stands in the center of the scandal to the Trump call, and with Selenskyj. According to official figures, Giuliani, then travelled to Kharkiv, in order to share his experiences as mayor of New York after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. During the presidential election in Ukraine, reported in the spring of 2019, the Ukrainian media, Fuks have co-financed Selenskyjs campaign. The entrepreneur denied this.
Vitali Klitschko
Close ties to Giuliani has also, of Kiev mayor and former Boxing champion Vitali Klitschko. He also knows Trump personally. As in the summer, there is a conflict between Klitschko and the President’s office chief of Selenskyj broke out, traveled the 48-Year-old to Giuliani to New York, and published in social media, a common photo – to show clearly that he has mighty helpers in the struggle for the seat of the Kiev administration heads.
Vitali Klitschko
The trip took place a few days after trump’s phone call with Selenskyj, in which the US President Giuliani Biden as the point of contact in the context of possible investigation of the activities of the former Vice-President Joe and his son had a Hunter called in the Ukraine. Klitschko said on Tuesday on the sidelines of an event in Kiev, he had not spoken with Giuliani on Biden.
He and his brother Vladimir, also a former professional Boxer, had met with Trump during her sports career, told to Klitschko in a previous Interview with TV channel “112 Ukraine”. The brothers had boxed in the former Trump-Casino “Taj Mahal”, the billionaire was often here, and you were his guest, so Klitschko.
Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas
There are also other, less well-known people with Connections to the Ukraine, whose names are mentioned in connection with the current scandal. Two names stand out here: Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas. There are entrepreneurs from Florida, with roots and Connections in Odessa. According to US media reports, the 53-year-old Fruman and the 47-year-old Parnas noticed recently with donations for the Trump events and Republican candidates in various elections. To Jr with Trump and his son Donald. have taken. The most important thing is, however, both are clients of Giuliani. You should have helped that Trump’s attorney, in the case of Biden’s contacts in the Ukraine, including to former General prosecutors.
The buyer of Trump-real estate
Finally, there are presumably a dozen or more Ukrainians, who have Trump-real estate acquired or the construction of co-financed, not only in the United States. Among them, there are well-known names, such as the Territory of the former great-grandson of a large city in Eastern Ukraine, or the daughter of a former Ukrainian businessman, who was suspected for money laundering. An exact number of such people is difficult.