Christopher Miller reports for the Financial Times in an article titled, “Kyiv probes leak of US minerals deal with polygraph tests.” Excerpt:
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has instructed Ukraine’s domestic security service to investigate the leak of the latest US proposal for profiting from Ukrainian assets, said government officials, in a probe that includes the use of polygraph tests.
The investigation comes amid deepening tensions between Kyiv and the Trump administration over the terms of a proposed deal on critical minerals and energy assets.
Ukrainian officials say they were caught off guard by the scope of the latest US demands, and view as politically untenable parts of Washington’s proposal for profiting from their country’s infrastructure.
President Donald Trump accused the Ukrainian president this week of “trying to back out” of the deal, adding that Zelenskyy would face “big problems” if he did not sign it soon.
The Ukrainian officials said that lie detector tests had been administered on staff across several ministries, but declined to give further details or specify how many individuals had been questioned.
The office of Ukraine’s president declined to comment. The security service said in a statement that it works within the law to protect Ukraine’s security and keeps certain details about its activities confidential.
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Earlier this year, the Ukrainian government began requiring foreigners seeking to join the Ukrainian armed forces to submit to lie detector testing.