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The Guardian: Who is Marie Yovanovitch, diplomat slated to testify on Ukraine and Trump?

Published Oct. 11, 2019 at 5:39 pm

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch (C) is surrounded by lawyers, aides and journalists as she arrives at the U.S. Capitol October 11, 2019 in Washington, DC. Yovanovitch was invited to testify behind closed doors to the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight committees as part of the ongoing impeachment investigation against President Donald Trump.

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By the time it was clear in November 2016 that Donald Trump had become the 45th president of the United States, it was already morning in Ukraine.

A stunned hush fell on America House in Kyiv, a cultural center where the US embassy was throwing a breakfast election party. Trump was an unknown quantity to everyone watching the big screen where the results were being called.