 In May 2020, Andriy Derkach, a Ukrainian lawmaker who is aligned with a pro-Russian faction and has links to Russian intelligence, released edited fragments of private phone calls from several years between then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (the presumptive Democratic nominee for U.S. president) and then-President Poroshenko.Derkach used the clips to make an series of accusations not supported by the tapes.The taped conversations were consistent with official U.S. and European policy at the time and with public statements by Biden and Poroshenko.