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    How Ukraine's President Wound Up In The Middle Of The Trump Impeachment Inquiry

    The infamous July 25 call between Volodymyr Zelenskiy and President Trump made what was already a delicate diplomatic situation for the new Ukrainian president even more complicated.
    by David Greene Nov 01, 2019 4 minutes
    Volodymyr Zelenskiy enters a hall in Kyiv on March 6 to take part in the taping of the television series <em>Servant of the People. </em>His role on the show was as a fictional president of Ukraine.

    If there were ever a person stuck in a place he never wanted to be, it's Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

    Zelenskiy had been in his post for only two months when he had that infamous July 25 phone call with President Trump — during which Trump asked the Ukrainian president to help investigate former Vice President Joe Biden. For Zelenskiy, the call made what was already a delicate diplomatic situation even more complicated.

    Zelenskiy presides over a country that has been locked for five years in a bloody conflict with Russian-backed separatists that has left at least 13,000 people dead. It's a fight that has made Ukraine increasingly dependent on American military assistance. Now, the effort to secure that aid has thrust Zelenskiy to the center

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