Title: Meet Alexander Vindman, the Colonel Who Testified on Trump’s Phone Call - The New York Times
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Meet Alexander Vindman, the Colonel Who Testified on Trump’s Phone Call
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Meet Alexander Vindman, the Colonel Who Testified on Trump’s Phone Call
He fled Ukraine at age 3 and became a soldier, scholar and official at the White House. That’s where, he told impeachment investigators, he witnessed alarming behavior by President Trump. Alexander S. Vindman, left, with his twin brother, Yevgeny, at the Pentagon in 2016. They are both lieutenant colonels in the Army. Credit...
Carol Kitman
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Published Oct. 29, 2019 Updated Feb. 7, 2020
WASHINGTON — The twin brothers were 3 when they fled Ukraine, then a Soviet republic, with their father and grandmother, Jewish refugees with only their suitcases and $750, hoping for a better life in the United States. In the 40 years since, the first-born twin, Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, has become a scholar, diplomat, decorated officer in the United States Army and Harvard-educated Ukraine expert on the White House’s National Security Council. And on Tuesday, Colonel Vindman’s past and present converged as he became a star witness in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump, which is centered on the president’s dealings with the colonel’s native Ukraine. Ensconced in the secure hearing rooms of the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in a midnight-blue dress uniform, a bevy of ribbons pinned to his chest, Colonel Vindman testified privately from morning until night.