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Pompeo to Visit Ukraine This Week

Kenneth Schwartz

   U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo leaves this week for Ukraine -- the
   country at the center of President Donald Trump's impeachment.

   Pompeo will be in Kyiv on Friday, the first stop of a five-nation
   European and Central Asian tour that will also take him to Belarus,
   Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Cyprus.

   Pompeo will be the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Ukraine and
   hold talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

   The two senior State Department officials who briefed reporters Monday
   on Pompeo's trip dodged all questions surrounding the impeachment,
   sparked by Trump's July 25 telephone call with Zelenskiy when Trump
   asked the Ukrainian leader for a "favor" and to investigate 2020
   Democratic rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter's job with a Ukrainian
   gas company.

   Trump is also accused of holding up military aid to Ukraine until
   Zelenskiy publicly committed to the probe.

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