Dayton, a retired Army lieutenant general, currently serves as
the senior U.S. defense adviser to Ukraine and director of the
George C. Marshall Center in Germany.
If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Dayton would replace Marie
Yovanovitch, a career diplomat who was recalled in May 2019.
In November, Yovanovitch told a House of Representatives
impeachment inquiry of Trump that she was ousted from her post
after coming under attack from the president's personal lawyer,
Rudy Giuliani.
Trump was impeached by the House in December on charges of
pressuring Ukraine into investigating Democratic presidential
candidate Joe Biden's son and obstruction of Congress. Trump was
acquitted by the Senate in February.
Russian troops seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and annexed it
after a referendum that Kiev and its Western allies say was
illegal. The Ukrainian government has also been embroiled in a
conflict with pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine since
2014 that has killed more than 13,000 people.
(Reporting by Eric Beech and Mohammad Zargham; Editing by Leslie
Adler)
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