Former Ambassador to Testify Publicly in Impeachment Probe Friday

Who is Marie Yovanovitch? originally appeared on abcnews.go.com

Her friends and colleagues all know her as "Masha."

But to most of the rest of the world, she's Marie Yovanovitch, the career diplomat caught up in the blizzard of headlines about Ukraine and President Donald Trump's possible impeachment.

Until a few months ago, she was the tough-minded U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, living in the embassy in Kyiv with her mother Nadia and her dog Scout, she said in a 2017 interview.

Then, her whole world changed.

Now, she's telling her story...

Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine testifies Friday in the second round of public impeachment hearings before the House Intelligence Committee. She’s the only witness appearing on Friday.

She has said in a prior closed-door session that she was the victim of a smear campaign by President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and that the president personally pressured the State Department to remove her from her role, according to a transcript of that hearing.

She said the deputy secretary of State had told her in April after...