Sec. Pompeo to visit Ukraine at the height of the Trump impeachment trial.
"This has been a very intense month," said Mykola Kapitonenko, an associate expert at the International Center for Policy Studies, a think tank in Ukraine."This has created a totally different background for the upcoming visit compared to what it had been a month ago."
Pompeo was forced to postpone the initial trip Jan. 1 because of protests around the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, triggered by U.S. airstrikes on weapons depots in Iraq and Syria that killed at least 25 militia fighters. Following a subsequent U.S.
There are plenty of mutual interests and reasons why the U.S. and the wider West should care about Ukraine, according to Kapitonenko, who described their relations as being"very stable on the one hand, but rather vulnerable on the other."
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