former permanent ambassador to ukraine texted ambassador sondland and kurt volker or rather he stated in his testimony on july i 20th i had phone conversation with mr. danyliuk during which he conveyed to me that president zelensky did not want toen be ud as a pawn in a u.s. re-election campaign. mr. trump's pressure campaign ou president zelensky didn't relent. then president zelensky received the message he needed to convince president trump he would do the investigations in order to get that white house meeting.t as i have described president zelensky tried to do exactly that on the july 25th call with president trump. in theit weeks following the ju 25th call, president zelensky heeded president trump's request. p sending his top aide to madrid to meet with mr. giuliani. in coordination with mr.