Former US President Joe Biden provoked the Ukraine conflict to cover up his family’s corrupt dealings, according to Kremlin investment aide Kirill Dmitriev.
Dmitriev made the comments Tuesday on a set of CIA documents declassified by the agency’s director, John Ratcliffe, earlier in the day.
RT reports: In 2016, then-Vice President Biden asked the CIA to cover up a report about his family’s alleged business dealings in Ukraine, according to an email published in the records.
“The truth is coming out – and justice must follow,” Dmitriev said.
The former US president’s family has long been linked to Ukrainian gas company Burisma. His son Hunter Biden, a convicted felon, was paid millions to sit on the company’s board during his time as vice president.
According to the contents of the infamous Hunter Biden laptop, which he abandonned at a Delaware repair shop in 2019, 10% of proceeds from international contracts went to “the Big Guy” – widely assumed to be a reference to his father.
Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, Moscow has characterized the fighting as a NATO proxy war against Russia.
During the course of the conflict, Biden severed US-Russia relations, which plunged to their lowest point since the Cold War.