Daily Digest: Top news of Thursday, Oct. 3 - Oct. 04, 2019

US Congress probes Trump’s anti-Biden campaign in Ukraine: But while the Democrats are seeking to impeach U.S. President Donald Trump for pressuring Ukraine to go after his political rival, ex-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, in Ukraine, local interest in the overseas political drama is slowly fading, overshadowed by domestic issues.
US congressman say that bipartisan support for Ukraine will withstand Trump: A veteran member of the U.S. Congress and an ardent critic of U.S. President Donald J. Trump said that Ukrainians shouldn’t worry about losing American support.
In Warsaw, Ukrainians exhort West to stand up to Putin: A former Ukrainian prime minister, a former foreign minister and two former members of parliament told the Warsaw Security Forum that Russian President Vladimir Putin is as much of a threat to them and the rest of the free world as he is to Ukraine.
Zelensky appointed a new National Security and Defense Council secretary: The appointment was made just days after Zelensky on Sept. 30 accepted resignation of the previous secretary Oleksandr Danylyuk who had quit the office citing his “uneasy relationship” with Andriy Bohdan, the head of the Presidential Office.
Ex-Lithuanian president: ‘We are not afraid’ of Russia: Dalia Grybauskaite, the former Lithuanian president who served 10 years before leaving office in July, says nations like hers and Ukraine are stuck with Russia as neighbors. But it doesn’t mean that they have to give up or give in to Russian aggression.
Zelensky’s chief of staff allegedly pressured top judge to issue ruling favoring Yanukovych: Chief of Staff Andriy Bohdan put illegal pressure on the former judge in 2010, when Bohdan worked in the government under then-President Viktor Yanukovych.
Germany celebrates Unity Day with friends in Kyiv (PHOTOS): Unity Day, celebrated annually on Oct. 3, is a public holiday that commemorates the anniversary of German reunification in 1990 when the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic were unified.