Ukraine Back Story:

Synopsis: Brief history of Ukraine with a focus on WWII and after, how the US nudged a coup in Ukraine in 2014, and who the instigators were in the coup. It also explains why Crimea left Ukraine and why there is conflict in the provinces that border Russia.

https://youtu.be/CkoOGQnj_aE?t=163

Edit: Another video on the background of the 2014 Ukraine conflict. Thanks u/Eyyyyyyyboss (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-Jme77Dfc4&t)

Post Ukraine 2014 Revolution:

Synopsis: How the Obama's administration took advantage of the post Ukrainian revolution for political and personal gains.

Feb 2014

• New President elected in Ukraine (Porochenko)

• Obama Administration becomes major advocate for new regime, installs influencers.

• Greg Craig: former Obama White House counsel

• Tad Devine: Chief Strategist for Bernie Sanders

• Tony Podesta: Brother to John Podesta

• Mark Penn: Chief Strategist for Hillary Clinton

• John Alazone: Obama campaign pollster

• Joel Benenson: the Obama campaign LEAD pollster

https://youtu.be/vxxmexUrluk

Mar 2014

• Joe Biden is made point-man on Ukraine (link)

Apr 2014

• Devon Archer visits Joe Biden at the White House. Brought plans for a program to assist Ukrainian natural gas industry and details of over $1 billion USD in U.S. aid and loans.

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/21/fact-sheet-us-crisis-support-package-ukraine

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/peter-schweizer-trump-is-right-to-call-for-probe-of-biden-dealings-with-ukraine

May 2014

• Hunter Biden and Devon Archer become Burisma Board Members

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bidens-son-joins-ukrainian-gas-producer-board-2014-05-14

https://www.cnbc.com/2014/05/13/bidens-son-joins-ukraine-gas-companys-board-of-directors.html

Note: Some insight into the Biden family (https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/a20655/things-my-father-taught-me/)

Nov 2014

• U.S. aid to Ukraine Increases.

-$1 billion sovereign loan guarantee -$320 million in general assistance -$118 million in equipment and training for their security forces -$20 million for law enforcement reform -And a fleet of advisors in banking, politics, energy, media, and human rights.

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/21/fact-sheet-us-assistance-ukraine

Apr 2015

• Obama Administration pushes IMF to mandate the establishment of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), which the Obama Administration helps Ukraine in it's establishment. (link)

• George Soros releases strategy memo for Ukraine (link)

• Artem Sytnyk is tapped to be the first director of NABU. (link)

??? 2015

• During 2015 1.8 billion USD in aid/U.S. guaranteed IMF loan funds is lost (via the owner of Burisma).

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/12/30/corruption-in-ukraine-is-so-bad-a-nigerian-prince-would-be-embarrassed-2/

https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/spectacular-rise-fall-ihor-kolomoiskys-steel-empire.html

Jun 2015

• Trump announces Presidential Run

Late 2015

• Alexandra Chalupa, DNC operative, brought on to investigate Trump and his campaign. (link)

• Paid $71k by the DNC for her work in 2016 (link)

• Wikileaks email from Chalupa. (link)

• More info on Obama Administration using Ukraine to target Trump (link)

Feb 2016

• Prosecutor General Shokin authorizes seizure of Burisma owner, Zlochevsky assets. (link)

Mar 2016

• Shokin is removed from his position as Prosecutor General (equivilent to Attorney General in the U.S.), after Joe Biden threatens to withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees. (link)

• Shokin submits a sworn testimony to a European Court that he was removed because he was investigating Burisma. (link)

• Yuriy Lutsenko (Shokin's successor as Prosecutor General), states he was also pressured by the U.S. to not investigate certain people and organizations. Such groups included Soros backed/funded NGO's like Anti Corruption Centre (ANTAC). (link)

• ANTAC is heavily funded by the International Renaissance Foundation (Soros NGO) (link)

(Note: If you open the link, scroll down to the Finances section, click it and then hover over each bar. You will see the list of groups that fund ANTAC)

Mar 2016 (Cont.)

• Burisma ownership linked to PrivatBank (who has been losing US aid and loan guarantees). (link)

• Ukrainian Bank loses $22 million and $1.8 Billion in IMF loans (again). (link)

• Chalupa starts working at the Ukrainian Embassy. (link)

• Ukranian Head of a Department of the Prosecutor General's Office met with representatives of the BlueStar Strategies. Here's a translated memo of that meeting: (link)

Apr 2016

-Bruce Ohr is informed by his wife, Nellie Ohr about DNC/Clinton oppo research (Steele Dossier included).

• https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fusion-gps-admits-doj-officials-wife-nellie-ohr-hired-to-probe-trump
• https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000016c-7444-d56f-af6c-fc6793270000
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/08/16/who-is-bruce-ohr-why-does-trump-keep-tweeting-about-him/

May 2016

• Michael Isikoff (mentioned previously by Chalupa in her email to the DNC Communications head), is given opposition research on Trump. Months later, that information would be published and used by the FBI to obtain a FISA warrant on Carter Page. (link)

(Isikoff's Yahoo article) https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-s-intel-officials-probe-ties-between-trump-adviser-and-kremlin-175046002.html

June 2016

• NABU signs Memorandom of Understanding with FBI (link)

• Addtional information to determine legality (link)

• Congress sounding the alarm about questionable activity (submitted recently) (link)

June 2016 (Cont.)

• Obama appoints Yovanovitch as new Ambassador to Ukraine. She is a big supporter of Artyom Sytnik (Director of NABU) (link)

• Manafort becomes Trump's campaign manager.

Late 2016

• Ukraine nationalizes PrivatBank (the bank that kept on losing all of the US aid/IMF loans) (link)

• Visas for Ukrainian Prosecutors are not granted (link)

• Black ledger, implicating Manafor became public. One of the individuals that made it public was Sytnik. He is recorded as doing so for political reasons and was trying to prevent Trump from getting elected. (link)

Nov 2016

• Trump wins election.
• Dems start the call for impeachment immediately
• Deepstate starts putting the information previously gathered to be used against Trump

Jul 2017

• First mention of Ukraine by the White House. (skip to 7:00 for the Ukraine mention (link)) (Trump on Twitter (link) )

• Senator Grassley writes letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosentstein about Ukraine. (link)

Oct 2017

• Ukraninan People's Deputy Borislav Rosenblatt filed a claim charging both Leshchenko and Sytnik with interfering in the U.S. election by publicly disclosing the information on Manafort. The Ukrainian court agreed. After Leshchenko appealed the decision, Rosenblatt leaked the audio recording. (link)

Feb 2019

• Ukraine reopens investigation into Burisma, U.S. officials were aware via open source intelligence. (link)

Mar 2019

• Ukraine submits notice of suspicion on Zlochevsky. (link)

Apr 2019

• Mueller Report finds no collusion

May 2019

• Trump recalls Yovanovitch to U.S., removes her as ambassador to Ukraine.

• Ambassador Volker accepts assignment to Ukraine, asks Giuliani to meet with the new President of Ukraine’s representative. (link)

Jul 2019

• Trump has phone call with new Ukrainian President (link)

Present

• Ukrainian Parliament members announce renewed investigations into Burisma and it’s owner for stealing US aid and guaranteed loan monies. (link)

EDIT: Link to John Solomon's timeline that goes in depth on the Biden's involvement in Ukraine. Thanks u/NosuchRedditor (link)