DOD received calls from Ukraine about the hold on aid on 7/25/19, the day of the infamous phone call. The Dept of State received similar inquiries within a week, so Ukraine understood the situation on military aid right away.Harry Marks wrote:They made a big deal of the Ukrainians not knowing the aid had been withheld until Politico published it, as if they would have acted like the aid was in hand despite it not arriving and not arriving.
One interesting but under-reported fact is the pressure on Zelensky began even before he was inaugurated. The prospect of high level American officials attending his inauguration was conditioned on Zelensky announcing investigations into Hunter Biden. VP Pence abruptly cancelled his trip to that ceremony just before it started because the announcement had not been made.