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'We Were Dragged Into This': What Ukrainians Think About The Trump Scandal

RFE/RL

   KYIV - On Sept. 24, in Washington, Speaker Nancy Pelosi stepped up to a
   podium and announced that the U.S. House of Representatives would start
   formal impeachment procedures against President Donald Trump, accusing
   him of betraying his oath of office and national security by pressing
   Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate a political
   rival.

   Meanwhile, more than 8,000 kilometers to the east, Alina Kosse was
   sheltered inside her bullet-riddled cottage in the eastern Ukrainian
   town of Mariyinka, where government forces were engaged in a firefight
   with Russia-backed separatists.

   Mariyinka has been largely destroyed in the war that erupted in 2014,
   after Russia seized Crimea and fomented separatism following the ouster
   of a Moscow-friendly president in Kyiv, and most of its residents have
   fled. The front line runs through its center. There is no running
   water, electricity is spotty, and food is scarce.

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