LOADING ERROR LOADING Yovanovitch’s hearing comes after diplomats Bill Taylor and George Kent publicly testified Wednesday for six hours about Trump’s attempt to freeze U.S. military aid to Ukraine until the country agreed to publicly commit to investigating former Vice President Joe Biden, who is running for president. Yovanovitch privately testified that Trump pressured the State Department to fire her …
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While it’s unclear whether Trump’s remark referred specifically to the behind-the-scenes manoeuvres this spring involving Naftogaz, The Associated Press has interviewed four people with direct knowledge of the attempts to influence Naftogaz. But the effort to install a friendlier management team at the helm of the gas company, Naftogaz, would soon be taken up with Ukraine’s new president by US …