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For years, Ukraine warned that Thorbjørn Jagland, Europe's top human rights official, was working for Moscow's interests. The Epstein files just added a troubling new chapter. Three weeks before the 2018 Trump-Putin summit, Jeffrey Epstein asked Jagland—then head of the Council of Europe—to connect him to Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov. Jagland agreed to help, responding that he would meet Lavrov's assistant and "suggest" a connection. This was the same man who spent years pushing to restore Russia's voting rights after Crimea, despite documented torture, disappearances, and Moscow's military occupation. KGB defectors identified Jagland as having been assigned the codename "Yuri" when he was chairman of Norway's Labour Party youth organization. He dismissed it as "normal diplomatic activity." Poland has now established an analytical task force to examine whether Russian intelligence "co-organized" Epstein's operation, with a formal investigation to follow if warranted. "This can only mean that they also possess compromising materials against many leaders still active today," Polish PM Donald Tusk said. https://t.co/p2NrVrm4PL