Soros-Freeland 2015 Ukraine remarks surface

A 2015 video conversation between financier George Soros and former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland has surfaced online. In the exchange, Freeland, who now serves as an economic adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, states that everyone she knows in Ukraine's post-Maidan government had been 'touched' by Soros's Open Society network, either through personal or spousal scholarships. Soros responded that he hadn't realized the scale of the network's influence over a 25-year period, noting that former students had become leaders. The video's release highlights ongoing narratives about Western influence in Ukrainian governance.