Unforunately, that’s bullshit, despite being repeated on Russian State TV and most recently on FOX.
Viktor Shokin was a deeply corrupt appointee on the position of Prosecutor General of Ukraine who’s motto was “never prosecure anyone ever, especially if they’re rich” as he was taking massive bribes from the oligarchs.
His dismissal was requested by the EU as a precondition for macroeconomic assistance and there were daily street protests in Kyiv demanding his dismissal. The same with IMF and EBRD.
From a 2015 article:
He said much of the corruption stems from the prosecutor general’s office. “It is the biggest organised crime game in town … just stone-cold gangsters,” alleged Bowser.
The prosecutor general himself, Viktor Shokin - who was recently targeted in an assassination attempt - serves at the behest of President Petro Poroshenko. Shokin and the prosecutor general’s office “give a legal facade to the corruption schemes”, Bowser claimed.
Since he was appointed as prosecutor general by Poroshenko in February, Shokin has not brought any cases of corruption to court involving Yanukovich or his partners. Nor has he prosecuted the hundreds of high-level corruption cases that have been brought to his office by Ukraine’s parliamentary committee on preventing and combating corruption.
“Reform is definitely being halted within the prosecutor’s office, just because the stakes are so high. There’s so much money in that system. And the problem is that the logical thing for many of the people within the system is to say, ‘Okay, take your money and run’,” said Bowser.
So Shokin’s dismissal was seen as a litmus test for the new pro-Western government, and only then did Joe Biden step in as then president Poroshenko of Ukraine tried to play EU against the US.
The Ukrainians were told unanimously that they will get zero loans from Western sources and they finally caved. If anything, Biden increased the chances of his son potentially being prosecuted by insisting in official capacity that Shokin be fired.
The Hunter Biden allegation started appearing on Russian State TV around that time, alongside staples such as “Hillary wants to start WW3” and “Jews want to enslave Ukraine”.
Honestly, it’s extremely frightening that fringe Russian propaganda is being repeated verbatim on Fox by hosts and Trump surrogates.