In the days following a July meeting at the White House, senior officials in the National Security Council reached out to their Ukrainian counterparts in an effort to circumvent U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland and the “amigos” to establish a direct line of communication with Kyiv, according to officials in both the U.S. and Ukraine.
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US National Security Advisor John Bolton listens to US President Donald Trump on June 28, 2019 during the G20 Summit in Osaka.