Ukraine's foreign minister said officials from his country will not testify in the United States—unless they are forced through via an official summons.
President Donald Trump has frequently bashed the House impeachment inquiry hearings that were set into motion by his phone call over the summer to the Ukrainian president requesting an investigation on 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
"We don't have any connection to this," Prystaiko told reporters at an investment conference in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol."They should deal with it themselves. We won't go there, we won't comment."Ukrainian officials said they have not received any formal requests from Congress or the White House for information regarding Trump's impeachment inquiry.
Zelensky was not pleased that the rough transcript of his private call with Trump was published by the White House that led House Democrats to begin the impeachment inquiry. Ukraine's president also did not say whether the Trump administration informed him beforehand that they would be releasing it. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to the media on October 1, 2019, in Kiev, Ukraine. Ukraine has been at the core of a political storm in U.S. politics since the release of a whistleblower's complaint suggesting President Donald Trump, at the expense of U.S. foreign policy, pressured Ukraine to investigate Trump's rival, Joe Biden, and Biden's son, Hunter.Regarding an investigation on Biden, Zelensky also told reporters:"I don't know the details of this case.
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