how did ukraine interfere with the 2020 election

He published edited tapes of Biden talking with a former president of Ukraine to try and undermine Biden's campaign. He spent the past year pushing these debunked conspiracy theories about former Vice President Joe Biden. What he's being punished for today, as you mentioned, is interfering in the 2020 election, the U.S. And now the Treasury Department today says he's been working as a Russian agent pushing Russian interests for more than the last decade.

PARKS: His name is Andriy Derkach, and he's a member of Ukraine's Parliament. NPR's Miles Parks covers voting and election security, and he joins us now.ĬHANG: So tell us more about this Ukrainian lawmaker. Separately, the company Microsoft disclosed a number of foreign cyberattacks. Today, the Treasury Department announced sanctions for a Ukrainian lawmaker for interfering in the 2020 race.

But this week, foreign interference, the topic we had been hearing so much about the past four years, is back in the spotlight. Lately, the big story around elections has been the pandemic and the efforts to increase voting by mail.

How did ukraine interfere with the 2020 election