Section: United Arab Emirates
Sondland confirms call with US President Trump a day after Ukraine call
Ambassador Gordon Sondland confirmed for House impeachment investigators Wednesday he spoke with US President Donald Trump on a cellphone from a busy Kyiv restaurant, the day after the president …read more Source:: Al...
Russia returns seized Ukrainian naval ships
Russian authorities returned several seized Ukrainian naval ships yesterday in the run-up to peace talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy next month. French President Emmanuel Macron, who is due to host the summit in Paris, welcomed the move, saying that it would help build confidence between...
Trump tweets he might be willing to testify in impeachment inquiry
US President Donald Trump on Monday said that he might be willing to testify in the impeachment inquiry over his dealings with Ukraine ‘even though I did nothing wrong.’ Democrats leading the impeachment process in the US House of Representatives have not formally called Trump as a witness in the inquiry into whether he used foreign policy...
Russia begins moving captured Ukrainian ships before possible handover
Russia began moving three captured Ukrainian navy ships on Sunday after a Russian newspaper reported Moscow would return them to Ukraine ahead of a four-way summit on eastern Ukraine next month, a Reuters reporter said. The reporter in Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, saw tug boats pulling the three vessels through the Kerch...
WH budget official testifies in Trump impeachment probe
A White House budget official yesterday walked into a closed session of the US House of Representatives impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, where he testified about the holdup of military aid to Ukraine.Mark Sandy, a career official of the Office of Management and Budget, is the first person from OMB to testify before the inquiry after...
Ousted US envoy to Ukraine tells impeachment hearing she had no political agenda
The former US ambassador to Ukraine, branded “bad news” by President Donald Trump, defended her record and told an impeachment hearing on Friday she had pursued anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine and did not understand why the Trump administration removed her.”I had no agenda other than to pursue our stated foreign policy...
Trump attacks US diplomat as she testifies in impeachment probe
President Donald Trump on Friday tweeted an attack against the former US ambassador to Ukraine while she was in the middle of testifying in his impeachment probe, saying everything she touched went …read more Source:: Al...
US envoy did not explicitly link aid with opening Biden probe: Ukraine official
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said on Thursday that US ambassador Gordon Sondland did not explicitly link military aid to Kiev with opening an investigation into former Vice …read more Source:: Al...
Impeachment hearings focus on Ukraine pressure campaign
US diplomats Taylor and George Kent testified about their concerns about pressure by Trump. …read more Source:: Khaleej...
Trump impeachment hearings focus on Ukraine pressure campaign in first day
The top US diplomat in Ukraine, testifying on Wednesday in the first televised hearing of the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, linked the president more directly to a pressure …read more Source:: Al...
