November 15, 2019–In the second day of impeachment live televised hearings in the U.S. House of Representative, Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, warned of a “hollowing out of the State Department” that weakens U.S. diplomats abroad.
Ms. Yovanovitch said she lost her position as the ambassador to Ukraine after foreign and private interests used “unofficial back channels” to convince President Trump to remove her.
Ukraine: Caught Between Russia and the West
Yovanovitch also said Ukraine is “a battleground for great power competition, with a hot war for the control of the territory and a hybrid war to control Ukraine’s leadership.”
