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Zelensky is incapable of delivering on either demand. Trump in the 2016 election but they also want it to meddle in his favor for 2020. In other words, Trump associates want the Ukrainian government to prove that Ukraine improperly acted against Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, were part of a plot to wreck Mr. Giuliani also wants a probe of claims that revelations of payments by a Ukrainian political party to Mr.

Hunter Biden served on the board of a Ukrainian gas company, while Joe Biden, as vice president, urged the dismissal of Ukraine’s top prosecutor, who investigated the firm. Giuliani, who said he had met in Madrid with a close associate of the Ukrainian leader and urged that the new government restart an investigation of Mr. Biden and his son. Zelensky was openly reported to the New York Times last month by Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. military aid the country desperately needs in an attempt to extort it. Mr. Trump is not just soliciting Ukraine’s help with his presidential campaign he is using U.S.

presidential election by launching an investigation of the leading Democratic candidate, Joe Biden. But we’re reliably told that the president has a second and more venal agenda: He is attempting to force Mr. Putin, who is dedicated to undermining Ukrainian democracy and independence. military aid to a country still fighting Russian aggression in its eastern provinces. Trump refused to grant the Ukrainian leader a White House visit, but also he has suspended the delivery of $250 million in U.S. Zelensky has so far failed to win the backing of President Trump. That ought to be cause for celebration in Washington, where successive Democratic and Republican administrations have tried to draw Ukraine away from Vladi­mir Putin’s Russia and into the ranks of Western democracies, only to be frustrated by the fecklessness and corruption of the country’s political leaders. On Monday, he laid out a breathtakingly ambitious five-year plan including virtually every measure the International Monetary Fund and Western governments have urged on Ukraine in recent years, from land reform to the privatization of state companies to a cleansing of the judiciary. UKRAINE’S NEOPHYTE president, Volodymyr Zelensky, took a big step this week toward proving that he will be, as he promised, the most pro-reform president in Ukraine’s history.