Johnson demands Zelenskyy fire Ukraine's ambassador to US amid fallout from Pennsylvania trip

EXCLUSIVE: House Speaker Mike Johnson is calling on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to fire Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States after she allegedly organized a U.S. taxpayer-funded visit to a battleground state ahead of the 2024 presidential election, Fox News Digital has learned.

Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S., Oksana Markarova, organized a tour of an American manufacturing site for Zelenskyy over the weekend in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state ahead of November’s election.

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Johnson, R-La., said that tour was led by a "top political surrogate" for the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, and "purposely excluded" Republicans. Johnson called it clear "election interference."

"I demand that you immediately fire Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United States, Oksana Markarova," Johnson wrote in a letter to Zelenskyy exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital Wednesday.

"As you have said, Ukrainians have tried to avoid being ‘captured by American domestic politics,’ and ‘influencing the choices of the American people’ ahead of the November election," Johnson wrote. "Clearly, that objective was abandoned this week when Ambassador Markarova organized an event in which you toured an American manufacturing site.

"The facility was in a politically contested battleground state, was led by a top political surrogate for Kamala Harris, and failed to include a single Republican because – on purpose – no Republicans were invited," Johnson continued, adding the tour was "clearly a partisan campaign event designed to help Democrats and is clearly election interference."

Johnson said the "shortsighted