- Marie Yovanovitch defies White House to testify
- State department ‘attacked and hollowed out from within’
- Profile: who is former Ukraine envoy Marie Yovanovitch?
The former US ambassador to Ukraine, whose abrupt departure has become a focus of impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump, has told congressional investigators that the president personally pressured the state department to recall her as part of a “concerted campaign” against her.
At a closed-door hearing on Capital Hill, Marie Yovanovitch delivered a stinging denunciation of diplomacy under the Trump administration, saying the state department was being “attacked and hollowed out from within”.
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