Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko says ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is a “great friend of Ukraine.” That’s what he told a Kyiv Post journalist on the sidelines of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s state visit to Kyiv on Aug. 19.

Days later, that dubious statement looks increasingly untrue. On Aug. 21, The New York Times reported that Giuliani had met with Andriy Yermak, a key aide to President Volodymyr Zelensky, and urged him to reopen two highly suspect investigations: one into ex-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and another into supposed “Ukrainian interference” in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The Kyiv Post has repeatedly explained why these investigations are nonsense.