Ukraine’s national police are investigating whether U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was under surveillance in Kyiv last spring — something implied in a series of WhatsApp messages between a little-known Republican political candidate and an associate of Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer.
“Ukraine cannot ignore such illegal activities on the territory of its own state,” the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine said in a statement Thursday. The ministry says it’s asking the FBI to assist in its inquiry.
The texts made public between Lev Parnas and Robert F. Hyde, a Trump supporter and retired Marine who is running for Congress in Connecticut, suggested Yovanovitch was being monitored both electronically and in person, in an apparent breach of diplomatic security.
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