Gordon David Sondland is an American businessman and former diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to the European Union from 2018 to 2020, and was a central figure in the 2019 Trump–Ukra
2018 portrait of Sondland
Sondland (far left) at the United States–EU Energy Council meeting in Brussels on July 12, 2018
Volodymyr Zelensky and the U.S. Delegation at the May 20, 2019 Presidential inauguration of Zelensky
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
Gordon Sondland
…Sondland a “patriot” and said he would have preferred if Sondland was allowed to leave on his own terms. Another House witness, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, was fired on the same day. In a statement Sondland said he was "grateful to President Trump for having given me the opportunity to serve" and to Mike…
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