Pentagon official says Ukraine asked about military aid in July
(World News Russia)

Laura Cooper, a Pentagon expert on Ukraine, told the House Intelligence Committee Wednesday evening that Ukrainian embassy staff in Washington contacted her office in July with questions about the White House’s hold on military aid promised to their country. Cooper’s testimony adds a new twist to the House impeachment inquiry, into the connection between the hold on that aid and President Donald Trump’s desired politically motivated investigations into a Ukrainian energy company and the Biden family. The timing of Ukraine’s questions about the aid package potentially undercuts a key Republican argument that Kyiv did not know about the hold on security aid before...