Comment: The majority of corroborating links in the article below are in either Ukrainian or Russian. Adequate translations may be read by entering the page link into Google Translate, which will produce a corresponding page link in the target language. They are well worth the read.
A few weeks ago Radio Svoboda, the Ukrainian-language branch of the U.S. government-financed Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty (RFERL) published a video and article claiming that Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy had met secretly with Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of Russia's Security Council, headed by President Vladimir Putin under the Russian Constitution. This was a curious event. Zelenskiy, which the U.S. government officially backs, is an embattled political figure. His popularity has been nosediving, and he is under a flood of criticism and resistance from all sides: from moderates and democrats for failing to bring the peace he promised to Donbass or significantly tackle corruption and the country's powerful oligarchs and bureaucrats; from the same oligarchs and bureaucrats for promising to tackle corruption; from nationalists, ultranationalists, and neofascists for attempting to bring peace to Donbass and lifting Kiev's 20-year ban on the sale of land. This last measure is also opposed by some moderate democrats and the Ukrainian left. He has attempted to separate himself from oligarch Igor Kolomoiskii and former President Petro Poroshenko (themselves bitter oppoenents) under mounting pressure from the Donald Trump Administration to clamp down on Kolomoiskii and to investigate the Burisma scandal and the Bidens' and other democrats' involvement with and cover up.
Comment: Pompeo borrowing a page from the IDF's hasbara handbook. Occupation armies get attacked. Rightfully so, and legally. The Americans are the illegal aggressors here. There's a simple solution: get out, go home.
But then there's this: At least it's a start.