Ukraine is blocking two major anticorruption efforts backtracking on its promise to implement energy reforms and second by going after the Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Rada’s anti-corruption committee, according to U.S. Senator Chris Murphy who spoke at the Hearings of the Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation titled “European Energy Security: U.S. Interests and Coercive Russian Diplomacy” on Tuesday, Dec. 12.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman says that Ukraine has passed its stabilization phase, while today it needs significant resources to implement changes in social and other fields, the governmental press service reported following the prime minister’s Nov. 15 meeting with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Aaron Wess Mitchell.
Wess Mitchell, the Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs, will visit Ukraine at the end of a 10-day trip to Europe that starts this week, the State Department said in a November 5 statement, according to RFE/RL.