Zelensky Statement News Today

Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he will not give away any part of the country to invading Russian forces. Zelensky made the comments during an interview with CBS News.

That were specifically being demanded of them by rudy giuliani and president trump and they were investigations that were designed to help president trumps domestic political considerations. here for example -- its all -- weve got it now. heres a three-way text conversation between gordon sondland and kurt volker, the ukraine envoy, and another ukrainian official. the ukrainian government at this point has sent over a draft statement theyre proposing that their president could make announcing va...

Weeks." and when he says the anti-corruption statement we know from the context here, we know in part from the huge raft of text messages that were just released by the committees today that when ambassador sondland, even in his revised testimony calls it a public anti-corruption statement, we know he was well aware that what he was demanding of the ukrainian government was that they announce investigations that were specifically being demanded of them by rudy giuliani and president trump and th...

Definitely no withholding of military aid to try to get these investigations out of them. of course not. that would be terrible. i would never be involved in something like that. well, now recognizing that his role in this has been exposed by many other witnesses, ambassador sondlands recollection has been refreshed and now he is admitting even to that yes, it was a quid pro quo for the ukraine military aid. although i will say even in his revised statement it appears that mr. sondland is still ...

Morrisons opening statements have refreshed my recollections about conversations involving the suspension of u.s. aid. i do now recall a conversation on september 1st in warsaw with mr. yermak," top aide to the ukrainian president. "this brief pull-aside conversation followed a larger meeting involving vice president pence and president zelensky. after that large meeting i now recall speaking individually with mr. yermak where i said that resumption of u.s. aid would likely not occur until ukrai...

I mean, their text message to the guy in the ukrainian government literally says "following is text with insert at the end for two key items." meaning we are making sure these named investigations that trump wants are going to be in the zelensky statement. i mean, theyre writing the zelensky statement for the ukrainian government, making sure that the investigations are in there by name. and sondlands trying to claim he didnt know what the investigation was about? i mean, heres gordon sondland a...

Kurt volker and gordon sondland then intervene aggressively to say no, no, no, thats not enough. the statement has to be more specific than that. you have to include that the investigations youre launching are into burisma, where hunter biden was on the board, and the 2016 u.s. elections where were going to claim that ukraine interfered in the trump-clinton race rather than russia having done it. i mean, their text message to the guy in the ukrainian government literally says "following is text ...

Presidents. he says in his revised statement today, "with respect to the september 1st warsaw meeting the conversations described in ambassador taylor and mr. morrisons opening statements have refreshed my recollection about conversations involving the suspension of u.s. aid, which have become public only days earlier. i always believed that suspending aid to ukraine was ill-advised although i did not know and still do not know when, why, or by whom the aid was suspended." really? you dont know ...