Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warns his country’s citizens against interfering in foreign elections, calling it “unacceptable” in any case.
Zelensky also denied any possibility that Ukraine was involved in attempts to intervene in the US presidential election in 2020. The remarks came just a day after a top US intelligence official said a pro-Russian Ukrainian lawmakers joined a Kremlin effort to mediate in the November elections.
“Once again, I assure our partners that Ukraine has not allowed and will not allow itself to intervene in the elections in the future and thereby damage our trustworthy and established cooperative relations with the United States,” Zelensky said in a statement. on Saturday on Facebook shared on Facebook.
He added that preventing Ukraine’s domestic policy from interfering in US affairs was a “matter of our national security.”
“Therefore, I believe that citizens of Ukraine should mildly refrain from any activity related to the US presidential election and not allow themselves to solve any of their personal political or business problems,” he said. “The reputation of Ukraine is far more valuable than the reputation of any of our politicians.”
William Evanina, the director of the National Center for Counterintelligence and Security, said Friday that foreign opponents including Russia, China and Iran are focused on the upcoming US presidential election. In his report, he said that Russia was deploying a variety of measures to ‘primarily denigrate’ presumptive Democratic presidential nominees. Joe Biden
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“Some Kremlin-linked actors are also seeking to boost President Trump’s candidacy on social media and Russian television,” Evanina said.
He said Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Derkach, whom he described as “pro-Russia”, “spread allegations of corruption – including by disclosing leaked phone calls – to undermine the candidacy of Biden and the Democratic Party.”
His report also noted that China prefers that Trump not win a reelection because of his unpredictability.
Zelensky was stabbed at the center of U.S. affairs last year after reports first surfaced that Trump was pushing him to announce an investigation into Biden over unfounded allegations of corruption. The conversation was at the center of the Democratic-led House’s movement to impose the president. The House of Representatives released Trump earlier this year.
The US intelligence community concluded that Russia was actively working to intervene in the 2016 presidential election. Legislators and intelligence officials have repeatedly expressed concern that the Kremlin’s efforts will continue in the lead until November.
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