as deputy assistant secretary in the department of european and euro-asia affairs overseeing policy in ukraine and other countries. he has served 22 is in ukraine from 2004 to 2007. he was the deputy counsellor in the orange revolution from 2015 to 2018, he served as deputy chief in kiev. since joining the foreign service in 1992, mr. kent has served in poland,nnd thailand. he also served as the senior anti-corruption coordinator and oversaw programs to strengthen the rule of law. al witness depositions as part of this inquiry were unclassified in nature and all open hearings will also be at the unclassified level. any information that may touch on classified information will be addressed separately. congress will not tolerate any reprisal, threat of reprisal or attempt to retaliate against any u.s. government official for testifying before congress, including you or any of your
to maintain order and ensure the protection of the soldiers i met committee is run in accordance on the front line last week. with house rules and house rules it demonstrates to ukrainians 660. with that now i recognize myself and russians that we are to give an openin statement in the impeachment inquiry into ukraine s reliable strategic donald j. trump, the 45th president of the united states. partner. it is clearly in our national interests to deter further in 2014, russia invaded the russian aggression. and finally, as the committee is united states ally ukraine. aware, i wrote that withholding to reverse that nation s embrace security assistance in exchange of the west, and to fulfill for help, the domestic political vladimir putin s desire to campaign in the united states rebuild a russian empire. would be crazy. i believed that then and i in the following years, 14,000 believe it now. let me tell you why. ukrainians died as they battled on pay 28th of this year i met superior ru
television? they obviously have experience iigor fruman to smear officials. particularly yuri schennco and behind the scenes interviewing they were meddling false information in order to extract revenge against those who had these witnesses. they likely know where they want exposed their misconduct, including u.s. diplomats and to go. they have practice. they certainly know the case. reformed minded civil society i think their goal will be groups in ukraine. obviously to lay this out in a during the late spring and clear and concise way, get some summer of 2019, i became alarmed sound byte moments from these as those efforts bore fruit. they led to the ouster of witnesses based on what they already know. ambassador yovanovitch and i mean that s the thing. there have been hours an hours of transcripts released so far. hampered u.s. efforts to stab how can they distill this in a way that is television friendly rapport in the zelensky so that will be their goal here. ross, daniel goldma
mandate five years after ukraine s revolution of dignitary is a thirst for justice. because there cannot be dignitary without justice. without a reformed judicial sector that delivers justice with integrity for all, ukrainian society will remain unsettled. foreign investors, including american investors will not bring the great investment needed to ensure that ukraine s long-term prosperity is secured. this is why the principled promotion of the rule of law and institutional integrity is so necessary to our strategy for a successful ukraine. it is also true for other former captive nations still recovering from the ashes of society and communist misrule. it is why acting inconsistently with the core principles of the rule of law comes at great peril. i am grateful to all the members of congress and staffers, including many of you sitting here today, who have traveled to ukraine over the past five years and appropriated billions of dollars of assistance in support of our primary policy
minutemen of 1776, buying time for a regular army to reconstitute. since then, more than 13,000 ukrainian versus died on ukrainian soil defending their territorial integrity and sovereignty from russian aggression. america s support and ukraines 18 defacto war of independence has been critical in this regard. by analogy, the american colonies may not have prevailed against the british imperial might, without the help of transatlantic friends after 1776. in an egg co-of lafayette s organized assistance to general george washington s army and admiral john paul joan s navy, congress generously appropriated over $1.5 million in the mast five years in equipping security assistance to ukraine. these funds include the strength and ability to fight russian aggression. ultimately, ukraine is on the path to become a full security partner of the united states within nato.