Two career U.S. diplomats are testifying Wednesday during the impeachment inquiry targeting President Donald Trump that the president held a deeply negative view of Ukraine as a corrupt country that complicated diplomatic efforts to bolster Washington’s relations with Kyiv and support its fight against Russian separatists in the eastern part of the country. Catherine Croft, who was working as a Ukraine specialist on the National Security Council at the White House, testified to impeachment investigators that in 2017 she worked on Trump’s plan to provide Ukraine with an anti-tank missile system and also staffed his meeting with then-Ukrainian President …read more
Source:: Voice of America
