{"id":5035,"date":"2025-04-05T05:41:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T10:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=5035"},"modified":"2025-04-05T05:44:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T10:44:18","slug":"polygraphs-used-in-ukrainian-us-minerals-deal-leak-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/05\/polygraphs-used-in-ukrainian-us-minerals-deal-leak-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Polygraphs Used in Ukrainian US Minerals Deal Leak Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Christopher Miller <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/9f750cdc-b50d-4232-9bd5-21ca7408639c\">reports<\/a> for the <em>Financial Times<\/em> in an article titled, &#8220;Kyiv probes leak of US minerals deal with polygraph tests.&#8221; Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has instructed Ukraine\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ukrainian officials say they were caught off guard by the scope of the latest US demands, and view as politically untenable parts of Washington\u2019s proposal for profiting from their country\u2019s infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Donald Trump accused the Ukrainian president this week of \u201ctrying to back out\u201d of the deal, adding that Zelenskyy would face \u201cbig problems\u201d if he did not sign it soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The office of Ukraine\u2019s president declined to comment. The security service said in a statement that it\u00a0works within the law to protect Ukraine\u2019s security and keeps certain details about its activities confidential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the rest of the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/9f750cdc-b50d-4232-9bd5-21ca7408639c\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this year, the Ukrainian government <a href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2025\/02\/13\/ukraine-enacts-polygraph-requirement-for-foreigners-seeking-to-join-armed-forces\/\">began requiring foreigners<\/a> seeking to join the Ukrainian armed forces to submit to lie detector testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Miller reports for the Financial Times in an article titled, &#8220;Kyiv probes leak of US minerals deal with polygraph tests.&#8221; Excerpt: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has instructed Ukraine\u2019s 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 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[70,616],"class_list":{"0":"post-5035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-polygraph-screening","8":"tag-ukraine","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5036,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions\/5036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}