Top Trump allies hold secret talks with Zelenskyy’s Ukrainian opponents – POLITICO

As Washington ramps up its pressure on Zelenskyy to step aside, his rivals are talking to Trump's team...

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-allies-secret-talks-volodymyr-zelenskyy-opposition-ukraine-elections-yulia-tymoshenko-petro-poroshenko/

US envoy met with Ukraine president's ex-rival year before Trump phone call - CNBC

In 2018, Trump's envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker, met with Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister who ran for president against Volodymir Zelensky.....
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/27/trump-envoy-met-with-ukraine-leaders-ex-rival-year-before-call-in-impeachment-probe.html

At Prayer Breakfast, Guests Seek Access to a Different Higher Power - The New York Times

With a lineup of prayer meetings, humanitarian forums and religious panels, the National Prayer Breakfast has long brought together people from all over the world for an agenda built around the teachings of Jesus. 

But there on the guest list in recent years was Maria Butina, looking to meet high-level American officials and advance the interests of the Russian state, and Yulia Tymoshenko, a Ukranian opposition leader, seeking a few minutes with President Trump to burnish her credentials as a presidential prospect back home....

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/27/us/politics/national-prayer-breakfast.html