Ukraine

Aide recounts actions tying Trump to delay in Ukraine funds

6:59 pm November 17, 2019

WASHINGTON: Gordon Sondland, President Donald Trump’s emissary to the European Union, had a message when he met with a top Ukrainian official. Sondland said vital U.S. military assistance to Ukraine might be freed up if the country’s top prosecutor “would go to the mike and announce that he was opening the Burisma investigation,” a U.S. […]

Will Trump's mishandling of records leave a hole in history?

Trump aide curbed access to Ukraine call, fearing fallout

10:43 am November 17, 2019

Washington: A top US official restricted access to the summary of Donald Trump’s Ukraine call that triggered an impeachment probe, fearing it would damage the president, testimony released Saturday showed. White House Ukraine expert Timothy Morrison told House investigators he knew immediately how sensitive the call was when he heard Trump press Ukraine’s President Volodymyr […]

Diplomat says of Trump Ukraine call: 'I remember it vividly'

Diplomat says he overheard Trump call about ‘investigations’

12:59 pm November 16, 2019

Washington: A State Department official told impeachment investigators Friday that he overheard President Donald Trump talking with a US ambassador about investigations in Ukraine, according to people familiar with the testimony. David Holmes, the political counsel at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, said Trump was talking so loudly that Ambassador Gordon Sondland had to hold […]

Ousted ambassador felt ‘big threat;’ Trump assails her anew

11:28 pm November 15, 2019

Washington: Former US Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch provided chilling detail in Trump impeachment hearings Friday of the big threat she felt upon suddenly being ousted from her post and learning President Donald Trump had denounced her in his July phone call with Ukraine’s president. In that call, Trump assailed her as bad news and said she was […]

Two killed in Ukraine ammunition depot blasts

11:19 pm November 15, 2019

Kiev: Two Ukrainian mining engineers were killed and another four injured in blasts at an arms depot in eastern Ukraine near rebel-held territory, officials said Friday. Ukraine’s army said the explosions occurred during a planned disposal of outdated ammunition at a military base near the city of Kharkiv. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed […]