Ukraine has launched a criminal investigation into associates of Donald J Trump after Giuliani associate Lev Parnas turned over evidence to Congress of a plot to illegally stalk and possibly harm the then-Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch:

https://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...hreats-against

The texts were between Parnas, who was acting as Giuliani's point man in Ukraine and a back-channel middleman between Giuliani/Trump and the Ukrainian Government, and Robert Hyde, a major Trump donor/supporter and Republican operative who is currently a GOP candidate for Congress in Connecticut.

In the messages, Hyde and Parnas discuss the need to "get rid of" Yovanovitch, they track her location and her security arrangements, and they discuss hiring men in Ukraine who would do things "for a price" in what very eerily sounds like something a bunch of mobsters on the Sopranos would say to each other when planning a mob hit.