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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 goals,” the ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch, said in her opening statement on the second day of televised impeachment hearings in the US House of Representatives.”I still find it difficult to comprehend that foreign and private interests were able to undermine US interests in this way,” she told lawmakers.The session before …read more

Source:: Gulf times

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