{"id":107249,"date":"2024-09-26T15:40:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T08:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107249"},"modified":"2024-09-26T15:40:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T08:40:09","slug":"speaker-johnson-demands-zelenskyy-remove-ukraines-ambassador-to-us-after-pennsylvania-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107249","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Johnson demands Zelenskyy remove Ukraine&#8217;s ambassador to US after Pennsylvania visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 House Speaker <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mike-johnson\/\">Mike Johnson<\/a><\/span> is calling on Ukrainian President <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/zelenskyy-ukraine-pennsylvania-ammunition-plant-c0e1fe5ebfa11ecfe92e842860e6440c\">Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a><\/span> to fire his country\u2019s ambassador to the U.S. as Republicans criticize Zelenskyy\u2019s <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/zelenskyy-ukraine-pennsylvania-ammunition-plant-c0e1fe5ebfa11ecfe92e842860e6440c\">visit to an ammunition plant<\/a><\/span> in Pennsylvania, a swing-state, as a political stunt.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican speaker\u2019s demand Wednesday came as Zelenskyy <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/video\/war-and-unrest-ukraine-government-ukraine-russia-government-russia-eae042530895412f9447f6c70f7f27c1\">addressed the United Nations<\/a><\/span> in New York on the eve of his visit Washington, where he has plans to brief lawmakers on Capitol Hill about the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ukraine\">war effort<\/a><\/span> before <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/zelenskyy-peace-plan-biden-russia-ukraine-d5e0d1aa9bf7d17e13609c2564d26489\">meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House<\/a><\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tour was clearly a partisan campaign event designed to help Democrats and is clearly election interference,\u201d Johnson wrote in a letter to Zelenskyy. <\/p>\n<p>Johnson, who is close to Republican presidential nominee <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/span>, said no Republicans were invited to the plant tour on Sunday, which he said was arranged by Ambassador Oksana Markarova. <\/p>\n<p>An Army official said it was standard procedure to invite House and Senate members who represent the district where such industrial plants are located. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal discussions, said that in this case interested congressional members from the area attended.<\/p>\n<p>Joining for the visit were the state\u2019s Gov. Josh Shapiro, Sen. Bob Casey and the district\u2019s Rep. Matt Cartwright, all Democrats. The plant is located in Scranton, Biden\u2019s hometown.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker\u2019s stern demand for the swift removal of Markarova, a well-received diplomat in Washington who has been a fixture on Capitol Hill since the outset of the war \u2014 even sitting as a guest in the House visitor\u2019s gallery during pivotal speeches \u2014 comes at a daunting time for Ukraine as Zelenskyy works to ensure U.S. support for the war effort in an election year.<\/p>\n<p>While Biden and Democrats in Congress have largely stood with Ukraine since the Russian invasion in 2022, sending billions in U.S. aid to buy weaponry and support services, Republicans have split deeply. Trump has turned the GOP toward a new America First movement that generally prefers to limit U.S. involvement overseas, and he often speaks admirably of Russia and its president, Vladmir Putin. <\/p>\n<p>Johnson said that support for ending Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine \u201ccontinues to be bipartisan, but our relationship is unnecessarily tested,\u201d noting comments from the Ukrainian government about the top of the Trump-Vance presidential ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Trump in his own speech Wednesday <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-ukraine-putin-zelenskyy-0f4d539aa73a943474d779716e5fe42a\">lashed out at Zelenskyy<\/a><\/span> and said the people of Ukraine are \u201cdead\u201d and the country itself \u201cdemolished,\u201d raising fresh questions about the level of U.S. support the former president would provide to help Ukraine fight Russia if he returned to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Later Johnson, who said he won\u2019t be meeting Thursday with Zelenskyy at the Capitol, said the ambassador \u201ccrossed the line\u201d and the situation requires \u201cimmediate attention and action.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy visited the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-army-ukraine-russia-ammunition-war-75a9ca2e3be09578c65f1198ba5b72e5\">Scranton Army Ammunition Plant<\/a><\/span> to thank the workers who are producing one of the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-army-ukraine-russia-ammunition-war-e753d12f76ad3974184fc6aa2ed5125b\">most critically needed munitions<\/a><\/span> for <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ukraine\">his country\u2019s fight<\/a><\/span> to fend off Russian ground forces.<\/p>\n<p>The Scranton plant is one of the few facilities in the country to manufacture <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/155mm-howitzer-ukraine-ammunition-russia-7d966c85046b73db2b013f93c51af2a5\">155 mm artillery shells<\/a><\/span> and has increased production over the past year. Ukraine has already received more than 3 million of them from the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is in places like this where you can truly feel that the democratic world can prevail,\u201d Zelenskyy wrote on X. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to people like these \u2014 in Ukraine, in America, and in all partner countries \u2014 who work tirelessly to ensure that life is protected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy is far from the first foreign leader to visit U.S. plants producing and selling arms to their country, in tours that did not incur Republican protests. The U.S.\u2019s NATO partners in Europe increasingly have made a point of such visits to demonstrate the jobs and money that U.S. alliances bring home to Americans. <\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy also has met exclusively with Republicans on some past trips while in the U.S. In July, he <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ukraine-volodymyr-zelenskyy-governors-c777901001422bbc5e0885a1824a67c9\">visited Utah<\/a><\/span> to speak at the National Governor\u2019s Association and was welcomed by the state\u2019s Republican Gov. Spencer Cox, the group\u2019s outgoing chairman. During the visit Zelenskyy also met with Utah\u2019s congressional delegation, all Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>The Scranton visit sparked swift reprisals from the Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. James Comer, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, announced Wednesday he was opening an investigation into whether the Biden-Harris administration used taxpayer-funded resources to fly Zelenskyy to Pennsylvania as a campaign event for Vice President Kamala Harris, who is the Democratic nominee for president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Committee seeks to determine whether the Biden-Harris Administration attempted to use a foreign leader to benefit Vice President Harris\u2019s presidential campaign and, if so, necessarily committed an abuse of power,\u201d he wrote in letters to Biden, the White House counsel and others in the administration.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon said the flight was funded by the Defense Department for senior officials from the departments of Defense and State \u201cconducting official business related to U.S. security assistance to Ukraine.\u201d The flight stopped at Newark Liberty International Airport, \u201cwhere they linked up with President Zelensky before continuing to Wilkes-Barre International Airport in Pennsylvania,\u201d the Pentagon said.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Republicans, even those who had supported aid for Ukraine, roundly criticized Zelenskyy on Wednesday. \u201cHe really messed up,\u201d said Sen. Markwayne Mullin, an Oklahoma Republican.<\/p>\n<p>However, Sen. Roger Wicker, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee and a firm backer of Ukraine, suggested that Zelenskyy\u2019s visit was not as partisan as it appeared. Wicker was planning to meet with the Ukrainian president at the Capitol on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf President Zelenskyy came to Mississippi, he would be accompanied by Republican officials because that\u2019s who the people in their wisdom elected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Associated Press writers Stephen Groves and Lolita C. 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