Impeachment hearings: key witness to reject claim Ukraine meddled in US election - live
(The Guardian United States)

Fiona Hill, ex-senior director for Europe and Russia on the national security council, and David Holmes, state department aide in Kyiv, testifyIn this defining moment for America, support the Guardian´s independent journalism. Make a contribution 2.45pm GMT Holmes says the `barrage` against Yovanovitch was `unlike any I have seen in my professional career.``It quickly became clear that the White House was not prepared the level of support for the Zelenskiy administration that we had anticipated,` Holmes says. 2.41pm GMT Holmes is describing corruption and public lies spread by the former Ukrainian prosecutor general Yuri Lutsenko, Giuliani´s ally in the effort to take down Yovanovitch.`Mr Giuliani and others made a number of public statements critical of Yovanovitch` and other statements calling for investigations of supposed Ukrainian interference in the US election, Burisma and the Bidens, Holmes says. Continue reading...