Two of US President Donald Trump’s top envoys to Ukraine helped draft a statement for the country’s new president in August that would have committed Ukraine to pursuing investigations sought by Trump into his political rivals, three people briefed on the effort told The New York Times on Thursday.
The statement was worked on by Gordon Sondland, the United States ambassador to the European Union, and Kurt Volker, then the State Department’s special envoy to Ukraine, according to the three people who have been briefed on it.
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