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    Biden's visits to Ukraine draw scrutiny

    by Tracy Wilkinson and Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times Oct 05, 2019 4 minutes

    KYIV, Ukraine - Four days before President Donald Trump was inaugurated in January 2017, the outgoing vice president, Joe Biden, was in Ukraine - his sixth visit in seven years - to deliver a rousing farewell speech.

    "You're fighting both against the cancer of corruption, which continues to eat away at Ukraine's democracy within, and the unrelenting aggression of the Kremlin," he told local leaders, politicians and parliamentarians in Kyiv, the capital.

    "It's imperative that you continue to strengthen all of your anti-corruption institutions to root out those who would return Ukraine to rule by cronyism and kleptocracy," he added.

    The rousing speech reflected not only Biden's focus on driving out entrenched corruption

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