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    Ukraine's young corruption fighters struggle against elites — and Donald Trump

    by Tracy Wilkinson and Sabra Ayres, Los Angeles Times Nov 15, 2019 5 minutes

    KYIV, Ukraine - From her second-story walk-up office in Kyiv's old Perchersk neighborhood, Daria Kaleniuk has been fighting the fire-breathing dragons of Ukrainian corruption - oligarchs and politicians and judges on the take.

    Little did she know she would also be going up against the most powerful man on Earth, Donald Trump.

    Kaleniuk is one of an entire new generation of Ukrainians who grew up in a freshly independent former Soviet republic that struggled to break free of Russia and to build institutions of basic governance. These young reformers speak English, aspire to Western values, reject their country's Soviet past, have turned away from Moscow - and now fear that the U.S. has turned away from them.

    Their work to battle graft and demand change belies the Ukraine that President Trump portrays.

    According to testimony before the House impeachment inquiry by Kurt Volker, the former U.S.

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