1 year agoUS and Ukraine hold non-proliferation dialogue
"She said bad things about me" and "wouldn't hang my picture in the embassy" in Kyiv, says @POTUS of Amb. Yovanovitch
"They hated me," @POTUS says of Ukraine
On @foxandfriends, @POTUS asserts @RudyGiuliani was a great person to send to fight corruption in Ukraine
"It's not true what he said," @POTUS says of @USAmbEU assertion of quid pro quo with Ukraine
1 year agoMP Dubinsky suggest that head of NABU Sytnyk is an "agent of U.S. Intelligence, and President office expects to get rid of him"
1 year agoThe last member of the crew was evacuated from Delfi tanker
Russian president Putin expresses concern over NATO's attempts to "get closer to the borders of country" and the militarization of space
1 year agoUkrainian PM Honcharuk: Today there is no corruption in Ukraine at high levels. I am convinced that in the near future there will be no corruption at all.
1 year agoMoldova-flagged tanker DELFI IMO 8866266 went aground at beach near Odesa. Vessel has not issued Mayday distress call, cause of position of owners. Likely was involved in smuggling of oil products
1 year agoPolice and emergency services prepare evacuation of crew of DELFI tanker
1 year agoSome pics of recently returned 3 Ukrainian naval boats from Russia. Some of the crew released by Russia in Sept watched their return. Ukraine says boats will be checked & their condition will determine whether any legal action will proceed against Russia
Joint Forces Operation Press Center: yesterday Russian forces opened fire 6 times. 3 Ukrainian soldiers wounded
1 year agoNosegear of Turkish Airlines flight #TK467 Boeing 737-800 collapsed on landing at Odessa Airport
As Schiff is talking Graham's office sends this": Graham Requests State Department Documents on Bidens, Obama Administration Officials and Ukraine
1 year agoRally in Kyiv on the anniversary of the Revolution of Dignity(Euromaidan)
Holmes testifies that Ukrainians are in need of U.S. support to this day - as Zelenskyy seeks to arrange a summit meeting with Putin, Zelenskyy "needs President Putin to understand America supports" him at "the highest levels"
1 year agoFiona Hill, former top Russia expert for the White House: "I have heard some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia" didn't meddle in the 2016 election "and that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, Ukraine did. This is a fictional narrative."
[email protected]: ...President Trump said the Ukraine President should just do the right thing (No Quid Pro Quo). You shouldn't charge, but you cannot convict, a sitting president on the basis of conflicting and ambiguous evidence, and destabilize the American Government." Thank you Ken
Holmes: "At a time of shifting allegiances and rising competitors in the world, we have no better friend than Ukraine – a scrappy, unbowed, determined, and above all dignified people who are standing up against Russian authoritarianism and aggression. They deserve better."
DAVID HOLMES: "Ukrainians cherish their bipartisan American support that has sustained their Euro-Atlantic aspirations, and they recoil at the thought of playing a role in U.S. domestic politics or elections."
Holmes: "We have no better friends than Ukraine"
1 year agoHolmes suggests Energy Sec Rick Perry was running a third irregular channel between Trump admin and Ukraine, holding meetings with top Ukrainian officials and excluding embassy staff from them. Perry's swift resignation suggests there's more to this story than what we know today
Holmes on July 25 call: "I was deeply disappointed to see that the President raised none of what I understood to be our inter-agency agreed-upon foreign policy priorities in Ukraine and instead raised the Biden/Burisma investigation and referred to the theory about Crowdstrike"
Holmes says Trump's meeting with Putin on June 28 in Osaka sent "a further signal of lack of support for Ukraine."
Holmes says on April 25, Ivan Bakanov, then top Zelensky advisor who's head of the Security Services of Ukraine, "indicated to me privately he had been contacted by 'someone named Giuliani who said he was an advisor to the Vice President.'"
Holmes is drawing a straight line between Yovanovitch supporting anti-corruption measures in Ukraine, and Lutsenko's attempts to defame her and cultivate a relationship with Giuliani
David Holmes testifies that policy priorities in Ukraine, including support against Russian aggression, "became overshadowed by a political agenda being promoted by . Giuliani and a cadre of officials operating with a direct channel to the White House."
1 year agoHolmes says U.S. embassy in Ukraine learned that Lutsenko complained that Yovanovitch had "destroyed him" - hence the smear campaign
[email protected]: I never in my wildest dreams thought my name would in any way be associated with the ugly word, Impeachment. The calls (Transcripts) were PERFECT, there was NOTHING said that was wrong. No pressure on Ukraine. Great corruption & dishonesty by Schiff on the other side
More than $35 million of the roughly $400 million in aid to Ukraine that Trump delayed has not been released to the country, according to a Pentagon spending document obtained by @latimes
Fiona Hill adds: "In the course of this investigation, I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests."
1 year agoIn her opening statement, Fiona Hill goes after Republican lawmakers for pushing allegations of Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election
