- Title: Ukraine's Zelenskiy says has never met or spoken to Giuliani
- Date: 1st October 2019
- Summary: KIEV, UKRAINE (OCTOBER 1, 2019) (REUTERS) UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKIY ENTERING ROOM FOR NEWS CONFERENCE, WALKING TO STAGE MEDIA (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT, VOLODYMY ZELENSKIY, SAYING: "Firstly, you all have read (CONTINUES IN ENGLISH). I think you understood, it was in English. The question was about pressing? (JOURNALIST SAYING OF CAMERA: "The question was "Did you feel pressured by Trump?") Look... I understood. (CONTINUES IN UKRAINIAN) I would like to say that I do not feel any pressure. There are many people both in the West and in Ukraine who would like to have influence on me, but I am President of Ukraine, President of an independent country, and I think that the steps I took so far prove that I can not be influenced." MEDIA (SOUNDBITE) (English) UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT, VOLODYMY ZELENSKIY, SAYING: "I've never met Rudy Giuliani. Never. And never had any phone calls with him. Thanks a lot." NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS
- Embargoed: 15th October 2019 17:32
- Keywords: Rudy Giuliani Trump phone call Zelenskiy Joe Biden Hunter Biden impeachement
- Location: KIEV, UKRAINE
- City: KIEV, UKRAINE
- Country: Ukraine
- Topics: Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001AZ9N70N
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- Story Text:Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday (October 1) he had never met or spoken to U.S. President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, whose meetings with Ukrainian officials are now part of an impeachment inquiry in Washington.
Democrats last week launched the impeachment effort in light of a whistleblower complaint against the Republican president, which accused him of soliciting foreign interference in the 2020 U.S. election, for his personal political benefit, on a phone call with Zelenskiy earlier this year.
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