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To them. are we now saying that security assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigations. ambassador sondland responded call me. now, what information had you learned that prompted you to write this text message? i had learned that in warsaw, after the meeting vice president pence had with president zelensky, ambassador sondland had had meetings there and had described to mr. yermak, the assistant to president zelensky, that the security assistance was also held pending announcement ....
Then senior director for european and russian affairs fiona hill and director of european affairs lieutenant colonel alex vindman at the nsc tried to assure me they were not aware of any official climate change in u.s. policy towards ukraine, omb s announcement notwithstanding. they did confirm that the hold on security assistance for ukraine came from chief of staff mick mulvaney who maintained a skeptical view of ukraine. in the same july 19th phone call, they gave me an account of a july 10th meeting with ukrainian and american officials at the white house. they told me that part way through the meeting ambassador sondland had connected investigations with an oval office meeting for president zelensky which so irritated then national security advisor john bolton that he abruptly ended the meeting telling dr. hill and lieutenant colonel vindman that ....
Call. before president zelensky joined the call, volker said he planned to be explicit with president zelensky in a one-on-one meeting in toronto on july 2nd. in that meeting ambassador volker planned to make clear what president zelensky should do to get the white house meeting. i did not understand what this meant, but ambassador volker said he would relay that president trump wanted to see rule of law trains paren see, but also, specifically, cooperations on investigations to get to the bottom of things. once president zelensky joined the call, the conversation was focused on energy policy and the war in dombas. president zelensky said he looked forward to the white house visit president trump offered in his may 29th letter. by mid july it was becoming clear to me the meeting president zelensky wanted was conditioned on the investigations of burisma and alleged ukrainian interference in the 2016 u.s. elections. ....
Oval office as promised in the may 29th letter from president trump. we could give him no firm answer. after our meeting with president zelensky, ambassador volker and i travel to the front line in northern dombos to receive a briefing from the commander of forces on the line of contact. arriving for the briefing in military headquarters, the commander thanked us for the security assistance, but i was aware that this assistance was on hold which made me uncomfortable. ambassador volker and i could see the armed and hostile russian-led forces on the other side of the damaged bridge across the line of contact. russian-led forces continue to kill ukrainians in the war, one or two a week. more ukrainians would undoubtedly die wrout the u.s. assistance. although i spent the morning of july 26 with president zelensky and other ukrainian of firms, the first summary i heard from anybody inside the u.s. government was during amorrison ....
In an instant i realized that one of the key pillars of our strong support nor ukraine was threatened. the regular policy channel was running contrary to the goals of longstanding u.s. policy. followed was a series of meeting, starting at the staff level and quickly reaching the level of cabinet secretaries. at every meeting the unanimous conclusion was that the security assistance should be resumed, the hold lifted. at one point the defense department was asked to provide analysis. within a day the defense department came back with a determination that the assistance was effective and should be resumed. my understanding was that the secretaries of defense and state, the cia director and the national security adviser sought a joint meeting with the president to convince him to release the hold, but such a meeting was hard to schedule and the hold lasted well into september. on july 9th in a phone call with ....