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House Speaker Mike Johnson is urging Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to fire Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States. This comes after she reportedly organized a U.S. taxpayer-funded visit to a critical state before the 2024 presidential election, Fox News has reported.
Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S., Oksana Markarova, arranged for Zelenskyy to tour an American manufacturing site in Pennsylvania, a pivotal battleground state, last weekend.
Johnson, R-La., stated that the tour, led by a “top political surrogate” for Vice President Kamala Harris, “purposely excluded” Republicans. Johnson labeled this as clear “election interference.”
“I demand that you immediately fire Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United States, Oksana Markarova,” Johnson wrote in a letter to Zelenskyy exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital on Wednesday.
“As you have said, Ukrainians have tried to avoid being ‘captured by American domestic politics,’ and ‘influencing the choices of the American people’ ahead of the November election,” Johnson wrote. “Clearly, that objective was abandoned this week when Ambassador Markarova organized an event in which you toured an American manufacturing site.”
“The facility was in a politically contested battleground state, was led by a top political surrogate for Kamala Harris, and failed to include a single Republican because – on purpose – no Republicans were invited,” Johnson continued, adding the tour was “clearly a partisan campaign event designed to help Democrats and is clearly election interference.”
Johnson claimed the “shortsighted and intentionally political move has caused Republicans to lose trust in Ambassador Markarova’s ability to fairly and effectively serve as a diplomat in this country.”
“She should be removed from her post immediately,” he wrote.
Johnson emphasized that “all foreign nations should avoid opining on or interfering in American domestic politics.”
“Support for ending Russia’s war against Ukraine continues to be bipartisan, but our relationship is unnecessarily tested and needlessly tarnished when the candidates at the top of the Republican presidential ticket are targeted in the media by officials in your government,” Johnson wrote.
“These incidents cannot be repeated.”
Johnson thanked Zelenskyy for his “prompt attention to this matter.”
“I trust you will take immediate action,” Johnson said.
Zelenskyy visited a Pennsylvania ammunition factory over the weekend with two Pentagon leaders — the assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology and the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer.
Zelenskyy also met with Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro, who was previously considered as Harris’s running mate before she chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
Zelenskyy recently gave interviews where he criticized former President Trump and his running mate JD Vance, calling the Ohio senator “too radical.”
The House Oversight Committee is now investigating the Biden-Harris administration’s alleged use of taxpayer-funded resources to fly Zelenskyy to Pennsylvania before the upcoming presidential election.
Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., announced the investigation on Wednesday, seeking records regarding the administration’s alleged “misuse of government resources” to allow Zelenskyy to “interfere in the 2024 presidential election.”
“The Committee seeks to determine whether the Biden-Harris Administration attempted to use a foreign leader to benefit Vice President Harris’s presidential campaign and, if so, necessarily committed an abuse of power,” Comer wrote Wednesday in a letter to the White House, Justice Department, and the Pentagon.
Comer said his committee is investigating the circumstances that led to the administration’s decision to transport Zelenskyy on a Department of the Air Force aircraft to Pennsylvania.