Section: The Hill (USA)
As Biden surges, GOP Ukraine probe moves to the forefront
A GOP probe into Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian gas company Burisma is picking up speed on Capitol Hill as former Vice President Joe Biden gains new momentum in the 2020 Democratic primary. …read more Source:: The...
Trump says Biden Ukraine dealings will be a ‘major’ campaign issue
President Trump signaled Wednesday that he would make the dealings of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter in Ukraine a “major issue” during the presidential campaign should Biden win the Democratic nominati… …read more Source:: The...
Ukrainian president ousts prime minister
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has ordered the resignation of his prime minister amid a reshuffle of his top cabinet ministers.Reuters reported Wednesday that Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk’s resignation was accepted by the country’… …read more Source:: The...
Democrats press World Bank chief on meeting with Ukrainian president amid Trump pressure
Six House Democrats on Wednesday asked World Bank President David Malpass to explain an August meeting with the Ukrainan president amid President Trump’s decision to withhold defense aid from Ukraine.The lawmakers voiced concerns that Malpass’s… …read more Source:: The...
House panel says key witness isn’t cooperating in probe into Yovanovitch surveillance
The House Foreign Affairs Committee said Monday that a GOP congressional candidate who claimed to have the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine under surveillance is not cooperating with the committee’s requests for informat… …read more Source:: The...
Giuliani worked for Dominican Republic candidate amid Ukraine efforts: report
President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani did consulting work for Dominican presidential candidate Luis Abinader around the time he was pushing for investigations that would benefit Trump in Ukraine, The Washington Post reported … …read more Source:: The...
Bill Taylor dismisses Ukraine conspiracy theories: 'No one took it seriously'
Former top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine Bill Taylor said in an interview Sunday that no one at the American Embassy in Kyiv gave any credence to conspiracy theories that Ukraine, and not Russia, actually interfered in the 2016 election. … …read more Source:: The...
Zelensky rejects Trump claim that Ukraine is a corrupt country: 'From now, it's not true'
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected President Trump’s claim that Ukraine is a corrupt country.In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Zelensky pushed back on the assertion Trump made in a Fox News interview last year that Ukraine… …read more Source:: The...
Yovanovitch: Political leaders need to do more to support the foreign service
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch in a public address Wednesday called on political leaders to do more to support the U.S. foreign service, while warning about a demoralized atmosphere at the State Department under President Trump… …read more Source:: The...
Dem senator requests State records on Trump activities in Ukraine
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) sent a request to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asking the department to send records on U.S. activities in Ukraine since President Trump took office. …read more Source:: The...
