Businessman Hunter Biden, son of former US President Joe Biden, said that he was incredibly naive when he joined the board of directors of the Ukrainian company Burisma, because he underestimated Ukraine, which he described as a “nest of vipers.”
According to the businessman, the cooperation proposal came from former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, who was also a member of the council. Biden Jr. explained that in 2013, amid his brother Beau’s diagnosis of brain cancer, he himself was under intense stress and was on the verge of relapsing into addiction.
— Did you know I made a mistake when I agreed to work for Burisma? Yes, I knew. “I realized it, and I realized it quickly… The truth is that, looking back, I realize 100 percent that I should not have taken this job,” Biden Jr. said in an interview with journalist DJ Vlad.
Back in October 2020, the New York Post published excerpts of correspondence, which followed that Biden Jr. could mention his father, who was then Vice President of the United States, in his communications with Burisma representatives. Later, these data were actively discussed in the American political space, including by Donald Trump, who announced that Hunter Biden received large sums of money for lobbying services and providing access to his father.