Ukraine Timeline
2002 - Burisma was founded in 2002 by Mykola Zlochevsky, an ally of the former pro-russian Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
2012 - Ukrainian prosecutor general begins investigating Mykola Zlochevsky, owner of the natural gas company Burisma Holdings, over allegations of money laundering, tax evasion, and corruption.
2014, February 13-18 - Ukranian revolution ousts pro-russian President Viktor Yanukovych. [wikipedia]
2014, February to March - Russia annexes the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine. [wikipedia]
2014, April - Hunter Biden joins the board of Burisma Holdings.
2015, February 10 - Viktor Mykolayovych Shokin becomes the Ukraine prosecutor general and inherits the Burisma investigation. He was later accused of blocking major cases against allies and influential figures and hindering the fight against corruption in Ukraine.
2015, December - Joe Biden visits Ukraine and threatens to withold $1 billion in loan guarantees because Shokin was not doing enough to investigate corruption, and had allowed the investigation of Zlochevsky and Burisma to become dormant. [wikipedia]
2016, March 29 - Shokin was formally dismissed in a Ukraine parliamentary vote.
2018, April 20 - Rudy Giuliani joins Trumps legal team to help fight Mueller's FBI investigation. [CNN]
2018, December - According to Lev Parnas, Congressman Devin Nunes meets with Viktor Shokin in Vienna in an attempt to dig up dirt on Biden.
2019, January 25 - Former Ukranian president Viktor Yanukovych was found guilty of treason for attempting to crush the 2014 pro-western demonstrations that eventually toppled his government. He was also found guilty of asking Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine after he had fled the country. Yanukovych was sentenced to 13 years in absentia because he now lives in Russia. Paul J. Manafort was a political consultant for Mr. Yanukovych before joining Trump's campaign in 2016. [NYTimes]
2019, May 2019 - Secretary Rick Perry, U.S. special envoy Kurt Volker and Gordon Sondland,
the three amigos
,
visit Ukraine to attend the inauguration of the new president Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
2019, June 18 - Fiona Hill had what she described as a “blow up” with Sondland after
she challenged him to explain why the E.U. ambassador was meddling in the affairs of a country that is
not part of his portfolio. Who has put you in charge of it?
Hill asked. Sondland replied: The president.
[washpost]
2019, June-July - Trump freezes $391M in funds to the Ukraine from the State Department and the Department of Defense. The funds had been approved by Congress to help Ukraine defend itself from Russia. [NBC]
2019, July 25 - Trump speaks with Ukraine President Zelensky by phone. After discussing the assistance for the Ukraine, Trump says "I do have a favor though." and asks Zelensky to investigate Crowdstrike and Biden. [transcript on Fox]
2019, July 26 - Gordon Sondland spoke to Trump on the phone from the restaurant SOH in Kyiv. Sondland informed Trump that Zelensky was willing to announce an investigation. Sondland also discussed efforts to efforts to free the American rapper A$AP Rocky from a Swedish jail at the request of Kim Kardashian. David Holmes and others at the table could hear both sides of the conversation. The mobile phone was not secure. So there is concern that Russia may also have been listening. [washpost]
2019, August 12 - An anonymous CIA analyst files a whistleblower complaint about
the phone call on July 25, 2019 and other efforts by Trump to pressure Ukraine to announce an investigation of Biden.
He wrote In the course of my official duties, I have received information from multiple U.S. government officials
that the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a
foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election.
[washpost]
2019, September ~7-9 - State Department release $141M to Ukraine after a legal finding that Trump did not have standing and could not block the aid. [bloomberg]
2019, September 11 - Trump releases remaining aid to Ukraine. [washpost]
2019, September 24 - Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, announced that the House would move forward with an official impeachment inquiry. [NBC]
2019, September 25 - Trump and Zelensky meet at the UN. When asked about pressure to investigate Biden, a visibly uncomfortable Zelensky says that he does not want to get involved in democratic elections of USA. [youtube], [washpost]