Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch gets up during a break in testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington, in the second public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump’s efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Associated Press

Marie „Masha“ Yovanovitch, a career diplomat and former ambassador to Ukraine, testified Friday about her efforts to fight corruption in the Eastern European country and her encounters with the Trump administration.

Yovanovitch’s treatment illustrates the disarray of Trump’s foreign policy, according to Molly Montgomery, a former adviser to Vice President Mike Pence on Europe and Eurasia and a 14-year Foreign Service officer.

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In the second day of televised presidential impeachment hearings, Marie „Masha“ Yovanovitch, a career diplomat, explained to members of the House Intelligence Committee how she had fought corruption in Ukraine and how the Trump administration abruptly removed from her post earlier this year.

Yovanovitch was ousted as ambassador to Kyiv in May after coming under attack by US President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, at a time when he was working to persuade Ukraine to carry out two investigations that would benefit the Republican president politically.

Giuliani also was trying to engineer a Ukrainian investigation into a debunked conspiracy theory embraced by some Trump allies that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 US election.

The main focus of the impeachment inquiry is a July 25 phone call in which Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who was elected in May, to open the investigations.

Democrats are looking into whether Trump abused his power by withholding $391 million in US security aid to Ukraine as leverage to pressure Kyiv to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, who is a leading contender for the Democratic nomination to take on Trump in the 2020 election. The money, approved by the US Congress to help US ally Ukraine combat Russia-backed separatists, was later provided to Ukraine.

Molly Montgomery is a former adviser to Vice President Mike Pence on Europe and Eurasia. She spent 14 years in the Foreign Service before stepping down last year.

She spoke to The World’s host Marco Werman about what it’s been like for current and former US diplomats to watch this week’s hearings.

Testimony by the former US ambassador to Ukraine shows US foreign policy is ‚in shambles,‘ former Pence adviser says

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