Impeachment Inquiry: Vindman Received 3 Offers to Become Ukraine’s Defense Minister

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, center, director for European Affairs at the National Security Council, arrives at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Oct. 29, 2019. Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman faced questioning from the House Intelligence Committee’s Republican counsel Steve Castor during Tuesday’s impeachment hearing on whether he was asked by Ukraine to become the country’s defense minister.

Vindman, an official in the National Security Council, said that Alex Danylyuk, a former aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, asked him in English about offers to become the defense minister of Ukraine.