The Guardian article on the Derkach leaks is quite funny. Naturally, it tries to paint it all as an FSB conspiracy. BUT, at the end it notes that:
"But Biden had previously stated publicly that he had pressed Poroshenko to fire Shokin [Ukraine's chief prosecutor, who was uncomfortably interested in the Burisma corruption case], even issuing a six-hour ultimatum. “If the prosecutor’s not fired, you’re not getting the money,” he recalled during a conference in 2018. “Son of a bitch, he got fired.”"
AND according to Poroshenko lawyers, the former president did no wrong because every Ukrainian president has the same conversation with the Bidens:
A lawyer for Poroshenko on Wednesday, Ilya Novikov, said there was no basis for a treason charge in the tapes. “The same negotiations with the same content have taken place over these last years, and the last year under President Zelenskiy is no exception.”
The Guardian article on the Derkach leaks is quite funny. Naturally, it tries to paint it all as an FSB conspiracy. BUT, at the end it notes that:
"But Biden had previously stated publicly that he had pressed Poroshenko to fire Shokin [Ukraine's chief prosecutor, who was uncomfortably interested in the Burisma corruption case], even issuing a six-hour ultimatum. “If the prosecutor’s not fired, you’re not getting the money,” he recalled during a conference in 2018. “Son of a bitch, he got fired.”"
AND according to Poroshenko lawyers, the former president did no wrong because every Ukrainian president has the same conversation with the Bidens:
A lawyer for Poroshenko on Wednesday, Ilya Novikov, said there was no basis for a treason charge in the tapes. “The same negotiations with the same content have taken place over these last years, and the last year under President Zelenskiy is no exception.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/20/ukraine-joe-biden-petro-poroshenko-recordings-investigation