The Ukrainian Parliament approved a new government after President Volodymyr Zelensky who came to power on an anti-corruption campaign fired the old ministers, saying they performed poorly and that the country needs “new brains.”

“President Trump knew exactly what was going on,” an associate of President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudi Giuliani said in an interview toMSNBC on Wednesday, referring to alleged efforts to force Ukraine into announcing a graft investigation into Trump’s political rival.

Russian hackers tried to steal emails and email credentials from the Ukrainian gas company that found itself last year at the center of a scandal that led to President Donald Trump’s impeachment, a US cybersecurity company said in areport published on Monday.