The former US ambassador to Ukraine has testified to impeachment investigators that Donald Trump pressured the state department to oust her from her position, despite a top official in the department telling her she had done nothing wrong.



According to a blistering opening statement, Marie Yovanovitch told a closed-door impeachment hearing on Capitol Hill on Friday that she was told the president had lost confidence in her and “abruptly” recalled in May. She said she was told by an official that there was a “concerted campaign” against her and that Trump had pressured officials to remove her for almost a year.



Read her full opening statement here:

yovanovitch statement