Early Concerns That 2020 Election Cycle Will ‘Sow Division’ in US-Ukrainian Relationship

(L) Ambassador Bill Taylor, the top diplomat in the U.S. embassy in Ukraine looks on during the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump in Washington, on Nov. 13, 2019. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images) (R) Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch is sworn in prior to providing testimony before the House Intelligence Committee in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 15, 2019. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Seven retired U.S. Ambassadors to Ukraine denounced “efforts to inject Ukraine into America’s domestic politics as the 2020 U.S. presidential election approaches,” in a statement issued on May 26.

It comes after Ukrainian politicians, diplomats, and civic activists called on American leaders in a joint statement three days earlier to differentiate between Ukraine’s position and the political actions sowing discord between two countries.