Ambassador to Ukraine, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, and retired from the State Department in 2020. Yovanovitch worked for five presidents throughout her career, and began her ambassadorship of Ukraine under President Barack Obama in 2016. “When I came back to the United States, I experienced… the smear campaign that was launched against me and other things,” Yovanovich said, “that felt like I was seeing some of the same things in the United States that I’d seen overseas, that we had a president who was using his office for personal gain, and the presidency is the highest office in the land.” The book documents her 33-year Foreign Service career that culminated with her being fired by Trump as the ambassador to Ukraine and her congressional testimony during his first impeachment. On Monday (May 9), Yovanovitch spoke about her memoir “ Lessons From The Edge” at Pat Miller Square in the heart of Del Ray. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch says that America resembled repressive regimes she’d seen overseas. (Updated 4:50 p.m.) Under President Donald Trump, former U.S.
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