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Mr Sondland, who takes the call, tells this member of staff the president is more interested in the Bidens than Ukraine 26 July: Mr Trump asks about 'investigations' into the Bidens, in a phone call overheard by a member of staff of Bill Taylor, the acting US ambassador to Ukraine.In a rough transcript released by the White House, the US president asks his counterpart to 'look into' Mr Biden and his son Hunter, who was a board member of a Ukrainian gas company 25 July: Mr Trump and Mr Zelensky speak by phone in a call that becomes central to the inquiry.

18 July: Military aid approved by US Congress is halted - the reasons for this later become hotly contested.

US National Security Council expert Fiona Hill later testifies that when she recounted that conversation to National Security Adviser John Bolton, he told her he wanted no part of this 'drug deal' and she should report it to White House lawyers

10 July: Two advisers to Mr Zelensky are told by Mr Sondland in a White House meeting that 'investigations' must go forward.

But the president, according to testimony, says he is sceptical that Ukraine is serious about tackling corruption and directs the Ukrainians to talk to his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani The three have just returned from Mr Zelensky's inauguration and they want Mr Trump to call him to offer support and arrange a meeting.

23 May: White House meeting between Mr Trump and the self-titled Three Amigos - EU ambassador Gordon Sondland, Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Ukraine special envoy Kurt Volker.

Ukraine has been in a conflict with Russia since the annexation of its southern peninsula Crimea in 2014 and fighting between government forces and Russian-backed separatists in the east

April 2019: A comedian with no political experience, Volodymyr Zelensky, is elected president of Ukraine.

Trump selling weapons to ukraine 2020 elections