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.