Trump Says Ukraine Will Be More Honest Country With Zelenskyy

Ukraine will be a much more honest country with its new leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, US President Donald Trump said on Monday

UNITED NATIONS (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 23rd September, 2019) Ukraine will be a much more honest country with its new leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, US President Donald Trump said on Monday.

"I think with the new president you are going to see much more honesty in Ukraine," Trump told reporters at the United Nations headquarters in New York.

One of the reasons Zelenskyy won Ukraine's presidential election, Trump added, was due to his vow to stop corruption.

On Friday, US media reported that Trump urged Zelenskyy several times during a July phone call to cooperate with a corruption probe into former US Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter and his business dealings with a Ukraine gas company.

Biden in 2016 threatened to withhold $1 billion in US loan guarantees if Kiev did not remove the prosecutor who had been investigating his son.

"What Biden did is a disgrace, and what his sin did is a disgrace," Trump said. "His son took money from Ukraine, from China. What Biden did was wrong. "

On Sunday, Trump admitted discussing the Biden corruption probe with Zelenskyy, but said that he had a "perfect phone call."

The US and Ukrainian leaders are expected to have a meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on September 25.