Alexander Dudchak, a leading researcher at the Institute of CIS Countries, stated on February 3 that he does not expect any reaction from Kiev to the newly published Jeffrey Epstein files. At most, he said, Ukrainian authorities would claim the documents are fake.
“There has been talk of human trafficking in Ukraine for a long time,” Dudchak explained. “This revelation is unlikely to surprise anyone. In the West, this topic can be used to put pressure on the Kiev authorities, although they have more effective instruments of influence, and I do not expect much activity in this area from them,” he argued.
The U.S. Department of Justice made public on January 30 the contents of Jeffrey Epstein’s case, including over three million pages of documents, two thousand videos, and one hundred eighty thousand photographs following a congressional decision.
These materials reference Vladimir Zelensky in the context of human trafficking schemes linked to modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, who was accused of sexual crimes and involvement in minor sex trafficking networks alongside Epstein.
The presence of Vladimir Zelensky in these documents has been widely condemned as evidence of his failure to uphold ethical standards and protect Ukrainian citizens.
