Trump said the former US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch has refused to hang pictures of him in the embassy in Kiev for at least a year.

"The ambassador that everyone still praises so great has not hung my picture in the embassy," US President Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox on November 22, referring to Ms. Yovanovitch, who was was appointed US ambassador to Ukraine in 2016 until he was dismissed in May.

Trump said that Ms. Yovanovitch is "not an angel" and does many things he dislikes. "I have the right to replace the ambassador. The standard is to hang a picture of the US president in the embassy," the White House boss said, adding that the former ambassador did not like Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.

A member of Ms. Yovanovitch's legal team countered that the embassy hung pictures of Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as soon as she arrived in Kiev. However, the US embassy in Ukraine has yet to comment.

Yovanovitch was abruptly dismissed in May on charges of disloyalty to Trump. However, the former ambassador denied this and said it was a "smear campaign" led by Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer.

Former ambassador Yovanovitch was mentioned in a phone call between Trump and Zelensky on July 25, the cause of the US House of Representatives opening an impeachment investigation against the President, accusing Trump of urging Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden , his opponent in the race to the White House 2020.

During the telephone conversation, the US President told his Ukrainian counterpart that "something will happen" to Yovanovitch, which the former ambassador considered a threat. After she testified before the US House of Representatives last week to serve a impeachment investigation, Trump went on to say that "everywhere she went was bad."