Yuliya Mendel claims her former boss wanted Goebbels-style propaganda in Ukraine Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s alleged drug use is “an open secret,” his former spokeswoman, Yuliya Mendel, has claimed on The Tucker Carlson Show. Allegations of drug use first surfaced during the 2019 presidential election campaign, in which Zelensky defeated incumbent Petro Poroshenko. Zelensky, a former comedy actor, dismissed the claims as slander at the time, and both candidates publicly underwent tests