Yevhen Enin spent the past several years rising through the ranks of Ukrainian diplomacy and law enforcement, repeatedly finding himself at the center of his home country’s entanglements with the United States.
Now, nearly one year into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Enin is dead. A victim of a Wednesday morning helicopter crash on Kyiv’s outskirts, Enin perished along with the leadership of Ukraine’s Interior Ministry.
I first met Enin in 2017, when I started covering the Ukrainian side of the Mueller investigation.