Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch told lawmakers conducting the impeachment inquiry last year that she did not receive a briefing at the embassy in Kiev about the sticky issues surrounding the Ukrainian gas firm tied to former Vice President Joe Biden, but newly released documents show the opposite was true.
State Department documents released through a Freedom of Information Act request include a string of emails in September 2016 between embassy officials, including Yovanovitch, to coordinate a briefing about Burisma, its owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, and the effort to rehabilitate their collective image. The effort included the hiring of Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son.
