Demokraterna inleder riksrättsförfarande mot Donald Trump (sep 2019)

Beginning in late March 2019, a series of articles appeared in an online publication called
The Hill. In these articles, several Ukrainian officials—most notably, Prosecutor General Yuriy
Lutsenko —-made a series of allegations against other Ukrainian officials and current and former
U.S. officials. Mr. Lutsenko and his colleagues alleged, inter alia:

that they possessed evidence that Ukrainian officials—namely, Head of the National
Anticorruption Bureau of Ukraine Artem Sytnyk and Member of Parliament Serhiy
Leshchenko—had "interfered" in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, allegedly in
collaboration with the DNC and the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv;5
• that the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv —specifically, U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, who
had criticized Mr. Lutsenko's organization for its poor record on fighting corruption —
had allegedly obstructed Ukrainian law enforcement agencies' pursuit of corruption
cases, including by providing a "do not prosecute" list, and had blocked Ukrainian
prosecutors from traveling to the United States expressly to prevent them from delivering
their "evidence" about the 2016 U.S. election;6 and
• that former Vice President Biden had pressured former Ukrainian President Petro
Poroshenko in 2016 to fire then Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin in order to
quash a purported criminal probe into Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company on
whose board the former Vice President's son, Hunter, sat.7

In several public comments,8 Mr. Lutsenko also stated that he wished to communicate directly with Attorney General Barr on these matters.

More than 300 former national security professionals—many of whom have served administrations of both parties—today issued a public statement commending the Congressional impeachment inquiry and encouraging vigorous efforts to ascertain additional facts and hold President Trump to account, as warranted.