October 22, 2026 – Feds used slim evidence to revoke Ukrainian witness’ visa, thwart Senate’s Biden corruption probe

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Andrii Telizhenko and Rudy Giuliani in New York on May 22, 2019. (Credit: Andrii Telzhenko / Facebook)

A Ukrainian who worked with the Democrat-tied consulting firm used by Hunter Biden’s Burisma planned to provide evidence of Biden family corruption to Congress. Before he could, the U.S. embassy stripped his visa, keeping him out of the U.S. He was later sanctioned for allegedly spreading Russian disinformation.

In the shadows of the 2020 election, the U.S. government revoked a Ukrainian witness’ visa and prevented him from testifying in the Senate’s probe into alleged Biden family corruption on the basis that he might be spreading Russian disinformation, even though its own intelligence showed he was an opponent of Russia and rejected Moscow’s overtures, bombshell memos released Thursday show.

The documents made public by the White House Government Transparency Task Force are the latest pieces of evidence to chronicle how the FBI, the State Department and other federal bodies sought to suffocate a narrative — later proven true — that Hunter Biden had been working for a Ukrainian energy company called Burisma Holdings that was seeking to leverage Vice President Joe Biden’s connections to solve its corruption problems.

Specifically, the memos show that the FBI and State Department rushed to block former Ukraine embassy aide Andrii Telizhenko’s arrival in the United States just as he was to be interviewed by Sens. Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley in September 2020.

Instead of testifying, the Ukrainian government official once trusted by the Obama administration was sanctioned for being painted as a possible unwitting purveyor of Russian smears against the Biden family.

The agencies argued that Telizhenko was spreading false claims that Hunter Biden’s service on Burisma’s board of directors had impacted U.S. policy fighting corruption in Ukraine and that Joe Biden had changed U.S. policy when he withheld $1 billion to force the firing of Ukraine’s chief prosecutor who was investigating, the memos show.

“Every witness interviewed for [the senators’] investigation testified that Vice President Biden did not alter United States foreign policy to benefit his son Hunter Biden, and that Hunter Biden’s presence on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma had no effect on U.S. foreign policy,” alleged a long-secret Treasury Department memo recommending the sanctions against Telizhenko.

In fact, evidence made public in the years after the 2020 election shows that America’s top diplomats in Kyiv in fact believed Hunter Biden’s presence on the Burisma board had “undercut” U.S. anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine and that Vice President Biden had overruled career officials’ recommendations to give Ukraine the loan guarantees and keep the prosecutor in place.

The newly released memos not only show the grounds for claiming Telizhenko spread Russian disinformation may have been erroneous, but also that the officials who would go on to penalize him knew beforehand that the Ukrainian was in fact a vocal opponent of Moscow who had rejected overtures to be recruited by Russian sources.

“In 2014 […] Andrii ((Telizhenko)) was banned from entering Russia due to his involvement in the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and was listed as a spy by the Russian government,” an Aug. 2020 FBI memo stated. The same memo shows that Russian officials attempted to recruit Telizhenko, but that he rebuffed them.

“In the summer of 2019, Russian officials tried to reach out to Telizhenko via Facebook and in person,” the memo reads. “Telizhenko blocked the Facebook account after realizing it was a Russian account.” It added: “[Redacted] under the directive of Ukrainian politician [redacted] tried to recruit Telizhenko in person, but Telizhenko denied their offer, and was subsequently blocked from attending political sessions and specific news channels.”

You can read the documents below:

Telizhenko Release Consolidated.pdf

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