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Testy Public Impeachment Hearing Reveals ‘Potentially Important’ Witness
Congressman Adam Schiff (California), the chair of the House of Representatives’ Intelligence Committee, said he has invited a U.S. embassy staffer in Ukraine to testify at the impeachment hearings into Donald Trump, calling the latest person to appear in the saga rocking Washington and Kyiv a “potentially important witness” in proving the...
Top U.S. Envoy In Ukraine Testifies In Trump Impeachment Hearing
William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, testified on November 13 during the public impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. In his testimony, Taylor recounted a conversation with a staff member who asked the U.S. ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, what Trump thought about Ukraine. He said Sondland’s response was that...
Ukraine Moves To Lift Ban On Farmland Sale
Ukraine’s parliament has passed a bill in its first reading to remove a ban on the sale of farmland, a move supported by the country’s foreign backers. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Is Center Stage In The Impeachment Probe, But Moscow Feels Shock Waves
Ukraine is now at center stage as the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump enters a new public phase. But regardless of whether Trump is ultimately removed from office, the reverberations from the impeachment will affect U.S. relations with Moscow as well as Kyiv for years to come. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Adam Schiff Opens Trump Impeachment Hearings
Adam Schiff, Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, formally opened the first public hearings in the impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on November 13. Schiff said the inquiry would consider whether Trump had abused his power by pressuring Ukraine to conduct “political investigations that would help his reelection...
Ukraine Detectives Detain Presidential Office Department Head For Bribery
Ukrainian anti-graft detectives on November 12 have detained the head of one of the main departments at the presidential office for allegedly demanding a $300,000 bribe, the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP) said on Facebook. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Six Crimeans Get Lengthy Prison Terms On Extremism Charges
A military court in Russia’s southern city of Rostov-on-Don has handed lengthy prison terms to six men from Crimea, five of whom are Crimean Tatars, for being members of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamic group. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Trump Says Will Release Transcript Of First Call With Ukraine’s President This Week
U.S. President Donald Trump has said he will by the end of the week release the transcript of his first phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, which took place on April 21, after the former comedian and political novice was elected. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Ex-Central Bank Official Among 7 Detained Over Loan To Troubled Bank
The former first deputy chairman of the central bank is among seven people who have been detained on suspicion of embezzling $49 million that was part of a loan the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) gave to stabilize a struggling bank owned by one of the country’s biggest agricultural producers. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe /...
Ukrainian Forces, Separatists Complete Pullback From Frontline Area
Kyiv and Russia-backed separatists say they have completed a pullback of troops and weapons from a frontline area in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
