A story about him might have even helped sparked that country’s 2004 Orange Revolution. One of those aides just happened to be Derkach’s father, Leonid Derkach, who was the head of Ukraine’s security services. LEONID DERKACH: Yes, yes. LEONID DERKACH: The time for him to mouth off will come to an end. In 2005, a Ukrainian parliamentary commission labeled Kuchma, Leonid Derkach and two other senior officials as being the masterminds of the plot.

Source: Washington Post December 05, 2019 22:12 UTC