Donald Trump's lawyer Rudolph Giuliani visited Budapest on December 3, where he met with former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko. He then came to Kyiv to meet with Viktor Shokin, Konstantin Kulik and other potentially useful individuals on Giuliani's quest of defending Trump.
On his trip, Giuliani's gathering materials for a documentary series that's supposed to help the US president amid impeachment proceedings.
In September, Congress initiated an impeachment procedure against US President Donald Trump. The focal point of Trump's impeachment initiative was the alleged quid-pro-quo: a White House meeting with Ukraine's new president Volodymyr Zelensky in return for the investigations into Burisma gas company and Ukraine's actions in 2016. Allegedly, the US military aid was also conditioned on the investigations.
Giuliani, in turn, wants to interview Ukraine's former prosecutors and gain information that would shift the focus and discredit Joe Biden. Lutsenko, Shokin and Kulik all publicly spoke of Burisma and the Biden family. Until fired on November 22, Kulik had been the last prosecutor to lead the Zlochevsky case.
In Budapest, Giuliani and Lutsenko filmed the third episode of the impeachment series, broadcasted by a conservative cable channel One America News. The odious lawyer has been traveling with Andriy Telizhenko, who previously worked at the PGO and the US Embassy in Ukraine, and former MP Andriy Artemenko.