Trump Impeachment

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch arrives on Capitol Hill in 2019 to testify in President Donald Trump’s impeachment hearing. She is speaking Wednesday in Santa Fe about her new book, Lessons from the Edge.

Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch describes feeling complex emotions about Ukraine, the country where she spent a fateful three years as a U.S. ambassador.

She has a strong, personal connection to Ukraine and its people, who are suffering the ravages of the unprovoked war Russia is waging as President Vladimir Putin seeks to recapture some Soviet-era dominance in the region.

Ukraine also became a political battlefield for Yovanovitch, 63, who was drawn into shadowy machinations that made her the target of a smear campaign, thrust her into an unwanted spotlight and abruptly cut short



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