uncomfortable for me in ukraine. i understood that he had joined forces with giuliani and that they both wanted me fired. but i salute on the mansion that they could be successful. the notion that an unscrupulous and disgruntled for an official, or even a president's personal dirt digger, would actually mean if you like the u.s. government to act against the sitting u. s. ambassador was inconceivable to me, and quote. the very next month, yovanovitch was suddenly recalled to washington in the middle of the night and summarily dismissed as ambassador. that happened just three days after the election of a new ukrainian president, volodymyr zelenskyy. he was about to get sucked right into the middle of donald trump's extortion scheme. and marie ivanovich, the veteran ambassador, who was such a staunch ally of ukraine and its fight against russia and corruption would not be there to back him up. a few months later, yovanovitch was called to testify at donald trump's impeachment hearings.