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Trump impeachment scandal continues: US special envoy for Ukraine resigned

US State Department Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Walker resigned. It is reported CNN.

Photo: Twitter / Kurt Volker

The resignation is related to the suddenly revealed role of Volcker in the scandal surrounding the telephone conversation between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, which took place on July 25. Kurt Volker was one of the most consistent opponents of the Russian annexation of Crimea, the current version of the Minsk agreements, the existence of the “DPR” and “LPR,” as well as an active supporter of expanding American assistance to Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression.

"Apostrophe" collected everything that is known about the story of Kurt Walker.

Why Walker resigned

Kurt Walker announced his decision to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. It is also reported that on Friday, September 27, Democrats in the House of Representatives expressed their intention to interrogate Walker regarding the scandalous conversation between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky on 25 on July.

In this conversation, Trump asked to investigate the activities of the gas company Burisma in Ukraine. Her board of directors included Hunter Biden, son of former US Vice President Joe Biden, Trump's likely rival in the 2020 presidential election from the Democratic Party.

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In August, a representative of one of the U.S. intelligence agencies who owned the situation filed a complaint with his leadership that during this conversation the head of the White House allegedly put pressure on his Ukrainian counterpart, demanding that he initiate an investigation against Joe Biden’s family.

This became known to the American media last week. A serious scandal broke out, in which the Ukrainian side was involved. On September 25, before Trump’s meeting with Zelensky on the sidelines of the next meeting of the UN General Assembly, a transcript of a telephone conversation on July 25 was published. Thus, Trump tried to prove that he did not “pressure” Zelensky. However, Democrats in the House of Representatives initiated impeachment proceedings against the US President.

The name of Kurt Walker is mentioned in a complaint by an anonymous U.S. intelligence officer in the name of the US President regarding Donald Trump’s conversation with President Vladimir Zelensky. The complaint said that the day after Trump’s conversation with Zelensky, on 26 July, Kurt Walker and US Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland arrived in Kiev and gave some advice to the Ukrainian side. A report by a U.S. intelligence community informant was declassified and published on the Congressional Intelligence Committee website.

The role in the scandal with Trump and Biden

The name of Kurt Walker is mentioned in the document at least five times in two episodes. In the first, he appears along with Gordon Sondland, who is known for the high level of trust from President Trump.

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“Given the numerous reports on these meetings provided to me by various US officials, Ambassadors Volker and Sondland reportedly provided advice to the Ukrainian leadership on how to ‘navigate’ the demands voiced by the President (Trump) to Mr. Zelensky,” the whistleblower explained.

The second episode, which mentions Kurt Volker along with Ambassador Sondland, concerns the attempts of Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to "bypass" certain national security decision-making processes. In this regard, it is noted that Volker and Sondland communicated with Giuliani in order to “reduce damage” to US national security. In addition, both diplomats met with members of the new Ukrainian government to “help Ukrainian leaders understand and respond to the different messages that came from official US channels on the one hand, and from Mr. Giuliani on the other.”

Volcker is expected to be questioned next week in connection with the investigation into the impeachment of US President Donald Trump by the House of Representatives. Moreover, the announcement of Volcker’s resignation came a few hours after the House Foreign Affairs Committee announced plans to hear him. “We are still waiting to hear everything he knows about this scandal,” a source told CNN.

The role of Walker for Ukraine

American diplomat Kurt Volker was appointed Special Representative of the US State Department for Ukraine on July 7, 2017. From the very beginning, he showed himself to be a fierce opponent of the annexation of Crimea, the existence of the “DPR” and “LPR,” as well as the Minsk agreements in their current version, which he called the “treaty on the division of Ukraine.”

In March 2018, during a discussion at the Hudson Institute think tank, Kurt Volker said that the Donetsk and Lugansk “people’s republics” should be liquidated because they do not comply with the Constitution of Ukraine. According to him, the “DPR” and “LPR” “are entities that were created by Russia in order to help disguise the role of the Russian Federation and strengthen the ongoing conflict” in Ukraine.

What they say in Russia

Kurt Walker resigned because his mission yielded zero result, believes the head of the Russian Federation Federation Council on Foreign Affairs, Konstantin Kosachev.

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“Volker is a true American, and this made his mission regarding Ukraine impossible,” he wrote on Facebook. According to Kosachev, the diplomat did not achieve any results because he always believed in the States, and not in the Ukrainian state.

“After all, it was in the interests of the United States, and not Ukraine, that all this time it was stupid to insist on Moscow’s exclusive responsibility for what is happening in the Ukrainian southeast...” says Kosachev.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

  • Congressmen became interested in a telephone conversation between Zelensky and Trump as part of an investigation into whether Trump and his lawyer Rudolf Giuliani tried put pressure on Ukraine in order to help Trump's election campaign in 2020 year.
  • Democrats announce formal request for US impeachment, which was triggered by a conversation between Ukrainian and American leaders.
  • US Department of State published conversation transcript President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and President of the United States Donald Trump.
  • An anonymous informant stated in his complaint that in the United States tried to hide the content of the conversation Trump and Zelensky.

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