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What happened in Kyiv and Ankara on 7 June 2019?
Summary
A retrospective on a run of legal and diplomatic decisions made on 6 and 7 June 2019 in Ukraine and in Turkey–US relations.
What did the days around 7 June 2019 bring for Ukraine's politics and for its neighbourhood? A cluster of legal rulings and warnings, some from Kyiv and one from Washington to Ankara.
On 6 June 2019, the Verkhovna Rada passed a law on temporary investigative commissions and temporary special commissions of the Verkhovna Rada. The law regulates the procedure for impeaching the President of Ukraine.
The same day, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine ruled certain provisions unconstitutional. One ruling concerned the electronic asset declarations of civic activists. In another, brought on the appeal of a plant owned by Kolomoyskyi, the court struck down the right of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) to seek to have corrupt deals declared invalid.
A warning to Ankara
On 7 June 2019, the United States notified Turkey that it would cancel Turkey's purchase of F-35 fighter jets if the government went ahead with buying Russia's S-400 missile defence system.
The two sets of events were unconnected, but they fell within a day of each other. In Kyiv, parliament and the court dealt with the rules on impeachment, activist declarations and the anti-corruption bureau's powers. Abroad, Washington set out a condition for a defence deal with a NATO partner.
