How Ukraine appears in the latest Epstein files
(kyivindependent.com)
from breakfastmtn@piefed.ca to world@lemmy.world on 03 Feb 2026 21:29
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from breakfastmtn@piefed.ca to world@lemmy.world on 03 Feb 2026 21:29
https://piefed.ca/c/world/p/497440/how-ukraine-appears-in-the-latest-epstein-files
The U.S. Department of Justice on Jan. 31 published over 3 million documents in accordance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Some of them had a direct connection to Ukraine.
The files linked to late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein include email conversations with at least two modeling agencies in Ukraine, travel arrangements for women from Kyiv and Odesa, booking arrangements in the Hyatt hotel in downtown Kyiv allegedly involving the hotel’s owner, a plan to purchase real estate in Lviv and the discussion of Ukraine’s political scene during the 2019 presidential elections.
The Kyiv Independent continues to review the documents published by the Department of Justice. The first findings are provided below.
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Unfortunately, due to the mass chaos that was (and still is) post Soviet Europe, Epstein was able to traffic girls from all across Eastern Europe.
He also had countless dealings in/with Russia as well.
The city I’m currently at was mentioned in the files ±600 times. A rather small city in East Europe called Riga. Mostly around modelling agencies.
I don’t know if calling the capital city of Latvia “a rather small city” is really accurate
By American standarts.
Would you call Washington a small city? It has very comparable population to Riga
The capital city of the US & the capital city of Latvia are … kinda different in order-of-magnitude…
Further, city-limits are kind of bogus, when metropolises tend to be sprawling ( try finding that actual-limit of Tokyo, as 1 extreme example ).
I believe the sanest way to discover the “size” of a city is simply to physically be in it, & then get to the contrasting-city, & be in that one…
I’m saying this as a person who used to live in a city generally known as Toronto, but which used to be multiple cities ( Scarborough, East York, Toronto ( proper ), etc, until it got amalgamated into the GTA/GreaterTorontoArea, & managability went out the window ( if your city-meeting’s agenda is now over 2,000 pages long, you aren’t managing anything, anymore, & that’s what happened after amalgamation )
All this to say, it’s probably density and area which define whether a “city” is big, or not, & not the “official boundaries” of the legal-demarcation, or the population-ignoring-density… which don’t have much relation to reality, in many cases.
( an interesting argument underlying this I came across years-ago:
The ONLY way to discover where London England actually has its limits, is to physically survey residents, & ask them whether they’re in London or not, & then draw the boundaries where the residents deem themselves to be in vs out.
That the official-boundaries are … not rooted in the citizen’s actual reality.
I’d never have thought of that angle, & it’s true. )
The population-density is about double, in Washington D.C., than it is in Riga, Latvia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riga
so I absolutely accept that Riga’s nowhere-near as intense as Washington is.
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Well, it’s less than a million, but I would call less than 250k population small, so maybe not Riga
Riga is 253.05 km² maybe that’s the reason, that’s a pretty compact city, but still not really small
People said I was crazy when I said Russia is proxy fighting Israel through Ukraine. Not so crazy now huh???! They were telling the truth about fighting Nazis.
We must unite against the ‘tribe of god’
No, that’s definitely still deranged. Ukrainian oligarchs engaged in sex trafficking are not “Ukraine”, certainly not after the invasion started.
Then why is Ukraine okay with Israel’s genocide in Gaza?
Could maybe possibly plausibly have something to do with the fact they’re in a desperate war for survival against an imperialist domineer where they’ve been deeply dependent on an Israeli ally for military, intelligence, and financial support? One that would leave them in no place to be criticizing the ones holding that lifeline?
Oh sorry, nevermind, I forgot you’re living in a fantasy realm where the war ended in three days and all those Jewish Nazis like Zelenskyy were purged. Or something.
I thought the act required the (partially redacted) release of all of the files, not the release of roughly half of them. What’s in the other half, mr trump?