News about Arseniy Yatsenyuk

During his 2014 vice presidential visit, Joe Biden (left) joined Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk's campaign to frack gas in Ukraine - just days after his son Hunter (left) joined the board of a company that was supposed to profit from it. According to a press release from the company, the first son joined the board of allegedly corrupt Ukrainian gas firm Burisma on April 18, 2014. Joe was aboard Air Force 2 on a three-day visit to East Europe three days later. On the plane, one of Biden's senior executives - who DailyMail.com - briefed reporters that the VP was promoting "medium- and long-term measures to raise conventional gas production while also taking advantage of Ukraine's unconventional gas reserves.' Burisma was one of the few companies in Ukraine to have a license at the time, with the 'unconventional' reserves referring to fracking, a gas extraction process for which Burisma was one of the few firms in Ukraine to have one. Joe was also promising support for Ukrainian energy companies from US experts, according to the official. Biden's call for increased energy production was politically significant, making Ukraine more economically independent from Russia. However, the change resulted in millions of dollars for the corporation where his son was then working.