Alexander Semyon Vindman is a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel who served as the Director of European Affairs for the National Security Council until 2020. He came to national attention i
Vindman and a friend on patrol in Mosul during the Iraq War, 2005
Vindman (far left) with the Presidential delegation at the 2019 inauguration of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Vindman's opening statement before Congress on October 28, 2019
The 2019 Trump–Ukraine political scandal arose primarily from the discovery of U.S. president Donald Trump's attempts to coerce Ukraine into investigating his political rival Joe Biden and thus potent
Alex Vindman
…Security Council (NSC) until 2020. He came to national attention in 2019 as a witness in Congress's impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump during the Trump–Ukraine scandal. In his testimony, he described concerns he had previously reported regarding a call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr…
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Former Secretary of Energy Rick Perry (R) with Zelenskyy (L) at Zelenskyy's inauguration, May 2019
Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense Kash Patel poses for his official portrait at the Pentagon on November 17, 2020.