Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday he would be ready to open a probe into any Ukrainian interference in the 2016 US presidential election but denied that President Donald Trump had tried to blackmail him. Zelenskiy told reporters that Trump did not seek to blackmail him during a phone call in July or a meeting in September. Trump's personal attorney Rudolph Giuliani also alleges some officials in Ukraine conspired to help Trump's Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton. This was not the subject of our conversation," Zelenskiy said about his call with Trump. "And we are ready to investigate interference in the (2016) election from the Ukrainian side, if it took place.

Source: dna October 11, 2019 00:33 UTC