IN BRIEF: What we know about Epstein files and reaction to them

MOSCOW, February 3. /TASS/. The US Department of Justice said it had released all the documents from the files of financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Nikolay Novik, an expert at the Institute of World Military Economics and Strategy at the Higher School of Economics, said in a column he contributed to TASS that the release marks the end of covering up for global elites, as the era of "backstage immunity" can be considered over.

TASS has compiled the key reaction of the world community to the release.

- Vladimir Zelensky is mentioned in connection with the trafficking of women and children from Ukraine, with the relevant documents reviewed by TASS.

- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced the launch of an investigation into the "Polish trace" in the Epstein case. He highlighted that the files contain messages from accomplices of a businessman from Krakow about "Polish women or girls ready to be sent."