Ukraine’s Zelensky Rejects Impeachment Claim, Denies Quid Pro Quo

'Look, I never talked to the president from the position of a quid pro quo'

President Donald Trump, right, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speak during a meeting in New York on Sept. 25, 2019. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky again denied a primary allegation leveled by House Democrats amid their impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, saying there was no discussion of a quid pro quo.

Zelensky is one of the central figures in the Democrat-led inquiry, having spoken to Trump in a July 25 phone call about investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, and Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian energy company that hired the younger Biden as a board member while the former vice president was in office.