In particular, two businessmen were arrested – Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas. In 2018, they arranged a telephone conversation of Trump’s lawyer and an ex-Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin regarding the case against Burisma, the dodgy energy company owned by ex-Ecology Minister Mikhail Zlochevsky. And in 2019, they were present at a meeting of Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, with Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko, during which the case against Burisma was also discussed.

One of the next key figures in Ukrainegate may be the Russian-Ukrainian oligarch Pavlo Fuchs. The majority of Ukrainians, most likely, have not even heard this name, because he rarely gives interviews. He does feature into Panama Papers for his extensive offshore holdings, for buying a portion of the frozen assets of a former President Viktor Yanukovych, and for accusing the Chinese state corporation CNBM of raiding its assets in Ukraine.