A White House decision to remove 2 top officials who played key roles as witnesses in the Ukraine scandal prompted confusion over the future of US foreign policy toward the embattled US ally at the heart of President Trump's impeachment
A White House decision to remove two top officials who played key roles as witnesses in the Ukraine scandal prompted confusion in Washington and Kiev on Friday over the future of US foreign policy toward the embattled US ally at the heart of President Donald Trump's impeachment.
US ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine expert at the National Security Council, were both fired from their jobs on Friday -- two days after Trump was acquitted in his Senate trial on two articles of impeachment.
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