. conflict in eastern ukraine between the two sides has worsened. both sides have been accused of violating the minsk agreement. and talk of a warmer relationship between moscow and washington says. trump became president has led to worries in ukraine that its interests are being sidelined. my guest is ivanna klympush—tsintsadze, ukraine's buys prominence of the european integration. is her country now out in the cold? vice premier stirk ivanna klympush—tsintsadze, welcome to hardtalk thank you for having me here. donald trump has said of vladimir putin that they would probably get along. he said -- isa would probably get along. he said -- is a election is properly bad news to ukraine. since his election, we have only had supportive messages from the us administration and we have had a very clear signal from donald trump himself during his recent meeting with the president of ukraine, petro poroshenko, when he confirmed the willingness to continue sanctions with regard to russian aggression against the ukraine and to support further ukrainian reforms, and to make sure that america is st

. welcome to hardtalk. i'm zeinab badawi. conflict in eastern ukraine between government forces and pro—moscow rebels in the breakaway regions of donetsk and luhansk has worsened and both sides are being blamed for violations of the peace plan, known as the minsk agreement. also, talk of a warmer relationship between moscow and washington since donald trump became president has led to worries in ukraine that its interests are being sidelined. my my guest is ivanna klympush—tsintsadze, ukraine's vice prime ministerfor klympush—tsintsadze, ukraine's vice prime minister for european integration. is her country now out in the cold internationally? ivanna klympush—tsintsadze, welcome to hardtalk thank you for having me here. donald trump said vladimir putin, i would actually get along with him, i think we would have a good relationship. he is election is bad news for the ukraine, isn't it? in the inauguration of the new american president we have only had supportive information and supportive information and supportive messages from the us administration. we have had a very clear sig

here is hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. conflict in eastern ukraine between government forces and pro—moscow rebels in donetsk and luhansk have worsened. both sides have violated the minsk agreement. there is talk of a warmer relationship between washington and moscow. that has left ukraine feeling like it has been sidelined. my feeling like it has been sidelined. my guest is the vice prime minister for european integration. is her country out in the cold internationally? vice prime minster ivanna klympush—tsintsadze, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me here. donald trump has said of vladimir putin that they would probably get along and have a good relationship. his election is probably bad news to ukraine, isn't it? since his inauguration, we have only had supportive messages from the us administration and we have had very clear signals from donald trump himself during his recent meeting with the president of ukraine, petro poroshenko, when he confirmed the willingness to continue sanctions with regard to russian aggression against ukraine, to support further ukrainian r

, ukraine and you're saying the pro—moscow separatists are responsible for this, but i have to put it to you that there are also complaints about ukrainian activity which has led to what the russian foreign ministry warns could turn into a humanitarian catastrophe. there have been criticisms of the illegal blockades by ukrainian activists that prevent supplies going to civilians in rebel—held territory, that's one of the accusations, and ukraine in march imposed a temporary freeze on rail and road cargo links to breakaway enclaves, which has meant that civilians are suffering in the rebel—held areas, they're not getting the supplies they need. i hope people in the west already understood that whatever russian ministry of foreign affairs is saying is not necessarily always the truth unfortunately. moreover, what russian information sources are bringing on the public. that's also quite frequently something that is made up. that is something that we have to deal with in our everyday life. what you are asking about... the ukrainian government had to make a response to the actions of t

you remember at the very first stage when there was a coup d'etat in ukraine well we can discuss that i believe because. i see that the people don't really understand the facts. the roots of that what happened in ukraine well it happened and russia. decided to save and protect the people who decided to refuse the instructions and the willing of the could eight star. activists and who wanted to retain their culture and their language and to continue using it and when they sanctions. don't really now. remember the names but the businessman from germany they suggested that the economy should not be a secret files for the sake of politics and the garment of germany said no that's the very case when we should teach russia a lesson and that is why politics and policies would be enjoying the primacy while the economy would be out of the question. you see we want to have a gradual development of cooperation that's what we want. i know. what i'm pivots he should have mentioned ukraine mr lavrov and i would also like to ask your question so let's start from the foundations. how would you define

mention what he has been doing in ukraine. as long as that message is being sent just -- not just by mr. trump's occasional rhetoric, but in american policy, i think we are ok regardless of what the tea leaves turn out to claim might have been said. host: the president has been tweeting this morning and with regard to election and cyber security he said putin and i discussed an impenetrable cyber security unit. -- let me get your reaction to that first. sure what that means because certainly russian hackers are among the world's biggest problem in cyberspace. there is no way to create a unit that just becomes impenetrable or at least that makes everybody else's sin am -- systems impenetrable. a largecurity will be problem for a long time and i don't think we can view russians as partners in this endeavor. occasionally we can exchange information and collaborate, we should expect they're trying to learn from every interaction to figure out how to break in to our system. there are fundamentally competitive rivalries when it comes to cyberspace and that concerns me because it suggests a

question about russia's relations with ukraine. >> do you think that russia and ukraine will continue to drift apart? and, if you look at the representativehe who's been nominated, what do you think of that? the interest of russia and ukraine mother russians and the ukrainian people, i'm absolutely convinced of that. our interests fully coincide. perhaps today's leadership of withne doesn't converge ours and certain ruling circles. if you look situation, beastly, ms. lee russia and ukraine are interested in cooperation -- if you look at the situation, , russia and ukraine are interested in cooperation. from's a huge legacy soviet times. unifiedion, a infrastructure come energy system, transport system. unfortunately, our present look ton colleagues step aside from that. there's one commodity that is really successful at the moment -- russiaphobia. they are treating in dividing russia from ukraine. think that like to convergingsider that of russia and ukraine should never happen. there is an active and unsuccessful trade in the quantity of russiaphobia at the moment. we have to concent

, including issues of them about ukraine. now a special envoy to deal with ukraine. i think they are off to good start. rex tillerson did a good job and i would say it's a good start, incremental progress and no major mistakes. well you are here, the other story of the day is the iraqi government declaring victory in mosul. you were national security adviser and saw the demise of al-qaeda in iraq which of course emerged again as isis. are you worried it might happen again? the most important thing now is what comes in behind isis. is there an effort to stabilise the situation and provide humanitarian assistance and provide humanitarian assistance and get good local government in place, get the economy going, jobs, if you do not do that, also addressed the sectarian tensions and get the differing groups talking. the risk if you do not do that is discontent continues and it will be a recruiting ground for isis 2.0 which will be even more brutal than isis. thank you forjoining us. we will have more later on on the victory in mosul the iraqi government is the clearing. 0n the donald trump gover

, this behavior in our elections and what he is doing in ukraine. as long as that message is being set by occasional policy -- is being set by american policy in the form of sanctions, i think we are ok regardless of what the tea leaves claim might have been set in the meeting. host: the president has been tweeting this morning with regard to election and cyber security. he said "putin and i discussed the celebrating an impenetrable cyber security unit so that the election hacking and other things will be guarded." he went on to tweet. well, let me get your reaction to that we first. guest: not really sure what that means, because certainly russian hackers are among the world's biggest problems in cyberspace. there is no way to create a unit that just becomes impenetrable or that makes everybody else's systems impenetrable. cyber security is a hard challenge for a long time, and i don't believe we can view russians as russian state actors as partners in this endeavor. occasionally we can exchange information and collaborate, but we should expect they are trying to learn from every inte

post in ukraine back in twenty fifteen. now though he's been stripped of his ukrainian citizenship ukrainian authorities claim saakashvili provided them with false information when he applied. but it does come off to a very public spat with the president of ukraine petro poroshenko. who saakashvili claims is not doing enough to fight corruption with saakashvili says the decision against him is politically motivated so i'll be speaking to him in just a few moments but first this report? by an engagement. the former georgian president is now stateless. mikhail saakashvili has been stripped of his ukrainian nationality. kiev alleges he supplied false information on his citizen registration form back in twenty fifteen. but for the ex head of state the move is politically motivated. designed to crush his criticism of the government. it's not the first time the political reformist has lost a nationality. during his nine years as president of georgia he pushed anti corruption efforts under forms to modernize the former soviet republic. of the two times in office he stepped down in twenty

tone for that meeting by putting putin on notice to actions in syria and ukraine were on the agenda. polandn that speech in the president struck a very nationalist tone. he talked about western civilization and any to defend that. sort of like his inauguration speech. after his last trip to europe did not seem to go as well as some european allies wanted, the you think this was a good way to start this next round of talks with european allies? guest: i think it was a step towards repairing frayed relationships with europe. in his previous trip he did not mention article five of the nato treaty. this was mentioned in the poll speech and i think that was reassuring to many in europe, especially in poland which is threatened by russia. host: we are talking with herman pirchner, the president of the american foreign-policy council. we are talking about president trump's first g-20 summit that is wrapping up now. democrats can call (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. --ndependent, (202) 748-8002 independents, (202) 748-8002. upeign policy gives a wrap of how the g 20 is going. t

ukraine. normal visitors can really be solved i think with collaboration with the with president putin so it's very very important to this kind of dialogue because and you know that's why i think when you have something that's clouded over by suspicious minds you really need to do your best to clear up those suspicions well professor james what i meant is that there seems to be new lines of disagreement emerging within the e.u. itself all one would be between germany and poland where president trump made a stall on his way to hamburg and he gave their all what was generally perceived as an anti russian speech by a number of analysts also suggested that that may have been meant as a signal to america that don't allow trump has his own options in europe we usually hear about logic be a putin trying to play on the divisions within europe but don't you think that this is something that president trump may have obviously if i think the warsaw visit was clearly the success for president crumb and he got a very large crowd a very enthusiastic crowd and he played two very particular points in pol

rex tillerson is in ukraine morning, his first official visit to the country as america's top diplomat. he is meeting with the president poroshenko. the two are expected to speak to reporters and when it happens we will bring it to you. >> the state department say tillerson intend to reaffirm their commit to the territory. >> ivan watson is live from moscow this hour. what are you learning about this meeting this morning, ivan? >> reporter: well, it's very important, because it comes about 48 hours after secretary tillerson and president trump sat down with the russian president vladimir putin and his foreign minister. ukraine is essentially an enemy of russia. it views the russian government as its enemy ever since the 2014 invasion and occupation and a anexting of ukraine. ukraine is very much at war with russian-backed separatists in ukraine. that has claimed more than a hundred ukrainian soldiers killed in that conflict in the first six months of this year alone. so as trump and putin were speaking together in germany, there were still dozens of cease-fire violations repor

is now stretched think he's the conflict in ukraine is far from over and the skulls from the. we have a special report from the front lines. tens. it's this war has ground to a stalemate. that means only told suffering. particularly for the civilian population. the white house says an announcement will be coming shortly on iran's nuclear agreement with wealth palace though on donald trump cold a bad deal. and the rest get paid to be entertaining children for decades now eloise at the museum with the new exhibits celebrating a picture book style . welcome to world news and that. it was three years ago today that malaysia airlines mh seven. down in easton crane killing all two hundred ninety eight people on board. it was the worst single loss of life in the war between russian backed separatists and the ukrainian government. will those already led to more than ten thousand deaths and left more than a million people displaced. this guarantee a ceasefire in the region though they're all regular breaches the bbc's focal keenan cameraman darren cold wave a theme to the frontline at the

ukraine. russia andhink that the ukraine will continue to drift apart? ofyou look at the background the special representative who's been nominated, what do you think of that? the interest of russia and ukrainian peoples, i'm absolutely convinced of that. our interests fully coincide. perhaps today's leadership of ukraine doesn't converge with hours, and certain ruling circles. if you look at the sewage that and ukraineussia are interested in cooperation. economy.p the if only because there is a huge legacy from soviet times. cooperation, unified infrastructure, energy system, transport system. unfortunately our present ukrainian colleagues look to step aside from that. there's one commodity that is really successful at the moment that is -- moment. that is russiaphobia. they are trading in dividing russia from the ukraine. some people seem to like that in the west. converginger that russia and the ukraine should never happen. isould just say that it active and unsuccessful trade in the commodity oppressive phobia at the moment -- russia phobia at the moment. we have to concentrate on m

proxy conflict aren't happy about this and some surprising but expected developments in ukraine. across talking some stories in the media i'm joined by my guest here in moscow exhibit a morone he is the founder of the center of political strategic analysis strout poll we also have dmitri bobbitt she's apply. analyst with sputnik international and in london we cross to adam garri he is a writer for the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate adam let me go to you first here. trump's decision to end cia operations in syria was expected actually there was a safe space station operations over a month ago there's been a lot of reactions i think it's quite curious you know the first thing is that the the neo con crowd so as well of course trump is caved to putin but they don't reflect upon almost six years of utter failure description at a huge price in so many different ways we saw this coming i suppose we should have expected the reaction is well go ahead out of in london well absolutely and the russian pres

. trump accused russia of destabilising ukraine and other countries. putin wants sanctions against russia lifted. trump wants to work with russia in syria to help defeat so—called islamic state, but not while russia is working with the iranians and syrian regime. and then there's the family photo, with president trump in the strange position of not being centre stage. but forget any headline of, "president marginalised", it seemed there was no shortage of leaders wanting to bend his ear. two big topics — one trade, the other, climate change. i was clear to president trump at how disappointed the uk was that the united states have decided to pull out of the paris agreement. and also clear that i hoped they would be able to find a way to come back into the paris agreement. is that possible? i think that's important for us globally. i believe it is possible. we're not renegotiating the paris agreement — that stays — but i want to see the united states looking for ways to rejoin. climate change is one of the many issues of concern to the thousands of protesters seeking to disru

900,000 others. ukraine's president has asked for discussions to begin on an action plan that could lead to nato. the president was speaking after holding talks in kiev. russia is not happy. ukraine is fighting a russian backed insurgency in the east. a spokesman said that for many years russia has been wary by nato's military structure moving closer to our borders and potentially this could be the next step. he says it will not boost stability and security in the european continent. this is the ukrainian parliament building and earlier today this is where the general secretary of nato spoke to mp5. he took some questions and most of them revolved around the possibility of ukraine joining nato, the north atlantic alliance. he did not give a direct answer to that or any canon time frame as to when talks might take place. but he stressed is that ukraine needed to carry out further reforms and do more to strengthen institutions and tackle corruption and that those reforms should be carried out anyway, that would move ukraine closer to nato. he also stressed that any eventual decision o

calling on russia to stop interfering in ukraine, will he also tell russia not to interfere in us elections? the threat of north korea's nuclear advance weighs over the g20 summit as does the growing rift between china and the us on how to deal with it. also: the man who led the british inquiry into the iraq war speaks out. sirjohn chilcot tells the bbc the former prime minister tony blair was emotionally involved in the argument and relied more on beliefs than facts. and: it's a beach day for the leaders of israel and india. we'll tell you why they are hitting the waves. i am katty kay in washington, christian fraser is in london. there is a monument in krazinksi square in warsaw that commemorates the polish uprising of 19114, which liberated the city from nazi occupation. a classic triumph of good over evil. today donald trump stood in front of that monument to evoke a new struggle — the battle for western civilisation. and it that moment the american president committed himself to standing with europe. the fundamental question of our time is whether the west has the will to s

russian experts believe that the situation in ukraine despite a march lower does told present a much higher danger to the unity and security in syria in europe do you agree with dad that the syrian file is actually far more troubling despite the fact that it is not a full scale war and i'm not able to pull to put them in the least like number one number two number three you cannot prefer one thing. of course there are all security risks definitely. to if we speak about ukraine for baltic states and for poland this is one more. reason to speak about a possible russian aggression not syria but ukraine many in russia believe that tactically president bush and kim may need a low level conflict simply as a as a tool that would distract attention from the lack of reforms from the very slow progress on all those promises that he made to the people of ukraine after my done is there any seeing is there anything in your view that moscow can do or you or for that matter can do to change that calculus if that is indeed the way he seems you know i personally believe that until we are still stick

eastern ukraine or as some people would say translated into russian little russia i'm sorry translate into english little russia is come into existence what's the story there in a nutshell adam go ahead. well the story started in sixteen fifteen fall into something called the trinity of love and this is with russia was invited by the local cossack spark into what was always historic russian land to fight poland and take it back and that's what it did the more southern regions called norval to see it were taken from turkey more and more of the matter and it's good you bring us money can you bring us much closer to the present what's going on there ok so i don't. know you know i know you don't have to show up on this program or what's the significance of this there is some kind of declaration of sovereignty what's going on go ahead. so last week the leader of the don't yet speak pulls republican alexander. he declared the state of of model c. or little russia now the declaration was important for the historic reasons obviously and it's important also because it shows the penultimate rej

into ukraine why is he hacking in to other people's e-mail servers why is he getting doesn't even own the phone that the i'm not sure he's capable of hacking when he's clearly been blasting it why is he supporting a regime that carries out chemical weapons attacks this is not a country that is upholding an international order to one of the tearing down i'm sure you know of him is you know one hundred percent that russia does not accept any of that fact if. active-x. the problem you know the problem with rush over the united now you guys need to come out of your alternative reality and understand that there are things happening out there in the world that most of the rest of the world accept but you don't accept it because there has been a narrative generated here that isn't based on fact well that's very dangerous i've been doing this interview of program for number of years and i have world leader after leader coming to this capital and being able to talk and willing being willing to talk to the kremlin i don't see the outline for hope leaders in front of the white house to be ho

question on the russia-ukraine relationship. or do you think that russia and ukraine will continue to drift apart? and if you look at the of the representative who has been nominated, what do you think of that? the interest of russia and ukraine, the russian and ukrainian people's, i'm absolutely convinced of that, converge, coincide. our interests fully coincide. perhaps today's leadership of withne doesn't converge ours, but if you look at the situation objectively, russia and ukraine are interested in cooperation, interested in making sure their competitive edge is combined to develop the economy. because there is a huge legacy from soviet times, i mean, cooperation, unified infrastructure, energy system, transport system. unfortunately, our present ukrainian policy refers aside from that. there is one trade, one commodity really successful at the moment. they are trading in dividing russia from ukraine, dragging the one from the other. some people seem to like that in the west. some consider that we should be converging russia and ukraine should never happen, so i would just sa

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technically the deal involved that guy buying and selling gas between russia and ukraine. but what the deal really was was a way to dump billions of dollars in the pocket of that ukrainian oligarch for a specific purpose. the way it worked instead of gas selling gas from russia to ukraine, they put this other guy in the middle. they sold that guy the middle in the gas for almost nothing and then that guy turned around and he sold the gas to ukraine at a massively marked up price. so the difference between what he bought the gas for and what he sold it for, that difference between those two prices it all went in his pocket. and it was billions of dollars. and that deal ripped off the people of russia, right, because it was their national gas company that was selling their gas for nothing, and it ripped off the people of ukraine because their government had to buy gas at this marked up price from this dude in the middle who was making billions of dollars off the arrangement. this arrangement that had been set up by the putin government. so that was the corrupt deal. it was basically

has gotten off lightly for its invasion of ukraine and for meddling in the u.s. election the sanctions that are imposed against russia are legitimate and necessary and if russia chooses to retaliate then so be it will both russia and the u.s. see this as being on a level footing as they know as you say have an equal number of personnel i suppose there's an aside to this why was there such an imbalance with the number of diplomats there. well i think that i can't speak to the actual personnel levels that the two sides have have maintained that it was the guise of helping her and the russian foreign ministry but i do think that what we've seen here is a situation in which the trumpet ministration had initially said it was going to try to improve relations with russia and the russians bought some time to see whether that would happen now that we seem to be moving toward new legislation that there's a host of new sanctions which there were failed conversations here a couple of weeks ago about the restoration of russia's two. homes here two houses that were from which russians were expel pu

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com . >>> the top u.s. diplomat has just arrived in ukraine a day after the u.s. president discussed the situation there with the russian president at the g-20. >>> a partial cease fire set to start in syria in less than an hour's time. could it be a blueprint for more cooperation in the fight against isis? >>> plus, after more than three years in jail, one of venezuela's main opposition figures leopold lopez is released from house arrest. live from cnn world headquarters, we welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm george on howehowell. the "cnn newsroom" starts right now. the u.s. president is back in washington returning from the g-20 summit in germany and following his big meetings there he's been tweeting say thaeg had an excellent meeting on north korea and trade with regards to his talks with the chinese president xi jinping. and he also sent rex tillerson to ukraine. mr. tillerson just arrived in kiev. pro-russian separatists have been fighting for control of eastern ukraine for more than three years now. tille

operative, paid, was working with ukraine and also sharing potentially damaging information with the dnc and hillary clinton's campaign. then to top it all off, the dnc operative also said that she would give off the record information and guidance "to a lot of journalists." you know, those people that suck it all in. they were trying to write stories about the trump campaign and paul manafort. maybe that's why the media doesn't want you to know about this story. were they complicit in this foreign plot to damage the trump campaign? here's another example that has been completely ignored. back in 2014, an israeli political group used $300,000 from the obama state department in a grant to create a political apparatus. for what purpose? to try to defeat one of our closest allies, to defeat the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu. next is the media and the democrats. the ones that are so apoplectic about the idea of collusion. why have they never reported any of these stories to you? take a look. >> i told you i thought there was a criminal plan and these were his allies. i had a

now russian backed rebels in ukraine. announced plans to create a new state within ukraine which they want to cool little russia. the rebel leader alexander as a coaching co of the self proclaimed donetsk republic said he would join forces with the other rebel held regions of lugansk. cancer has ridiculed the idea calling it a show put on by the insurgents. by that kremlin puppet moss's well for the latest on that switch or by a regional correspondent got of a crack in and over. by the city's went so far as to put forward to and these proposals it will they call the constitution out what else were they coming full. the constitution i think is a word document zeds about team pages but the key point that they make in the constitution is that. the way they see it ukraine has completely discredited itself i don't to be replaced entirely by a new state which then once called little russia so they don't actually just talking about. creating and you stay within ukraine they want this little russia to take over the whole of what is now ukraine and obviously the name little russia. is the name

chancellor i can only suppose ditto the comment that you discussed in detail situation in ukraine is there any news is there a hope that the situation in a will come closer to its resolution with. compared to what how it is now up for. discussion that started of this situation with the us president how does it go in or do interests of the u.s. and other very different in regards to ukraine and the issue of the conflict. i'm suggesting that given the bad. grounds of the u.s. envoy on this issue and do just that i see your russia's interests and ukraine's interest going to school not only interests of the russian people and the ukrainian people and i strongly believe this stuff i absolutely believe this whole inside of our interests of culturally coincide and there may be a difference between their leadership today's little ship of ukraine and certain political forces in ukraine. but if we look at the situation objectively we'll see that both russia and ukraine are interested in corporation and we are both interested in combining are a couple of advantages and we are both interested

syria, north korea and russian aggression in ukraine, which led to sanctions. sources say president trump has been presented with a large binder of briefing materials for the g20 summit. but only a few pages of notes and bullet points on his putin meeting. >> we urge russia to cease its activities in ukraine and elsewhere. >> reporter: trump delivered a tough message ahead of today's meeting. pledging aalliance in the face of aggression. >> we stand firmly behind article 5, the mutual defense commitment. >> reporter: but just hours earlier, the president stopped short of condemning moscow for meddling in the 2016 election. >> i think it was probably other people and/or countries and i see nothing wrong with that statement. nobody really knows. >> reporter: the statement undercutting the conclusions of his own intelligence community. >> there's absolutely no doubt about it in the high intelligence levels, the multiple sources of information we had and this high fidelity still leave me very convinced of the veracity of that report. >> reporter: it remains unclear if president trump wi

from syria to isis, ukraine, and north korea and perhaps, russia's interference in the u.s. election. earlier today, president trump was hopeful that he had one report and could find common ground. >> thank you very much. we appreciate it. president putin and i have been discussing various things and i think it's gone very well. we've had some very, very good talks. we are having a talk now and hopefully that will continue, but we look forward to a lot of very positive things happening for russia and the united states and for everybody concerned and it's an honor to be with you. thank you. >> meghan: chief white house correspondent john roberts is traveling with the president and joins us live from hamburg. >> meghan, good afternoon, good evening from hamburg. the fact that this bilateral meeting is still going on is significant. this was originally planned more as an elaborate pull aside that might last a few minutes, but the two leaders have been in there talking for more than an hour in what appears to be a very intimate setting. at just the president of the united state

affidavit. for. a summit between ukraine and the e.u. ended without a joint statement on monday despite plenty of smiles and shakes and jokes in. i have to say i'm very very very. so i would be shocked. ukraine's president petro poroshenko host an e.u. leaders are drunk or young and on toast for two days of talks poroshenko made it clear that he wants the sides to agree on a plan for ukraine to join the european union. summit first it was very important today to begin the development of the road maps to achieve our dreams ten years ago the association agreement and the visa free regime were perceived by many simply as dreams and only our enthusiasm for the optimistic if you see as him with the help of our friends and partners made it possible. ukraine will definitely not be able to become a member of the e.u. or nato in the next twenty to twenty five years for brussels at this time is very looked in to put pen to paper they will make this a diplomatic things were to very knowledge and so on we basically don't mean very much but you crane has to invent bits have been criteria. and brusse

campaign also worked had worked for almost ten years as a low beast in ukraine and it's what's ironic about mr mann a fourth is that in the united states he's investigated for allegedly russian ties in russia some people believe that he is this western stooge responsible in part for precipitating the current crisis in ukraine how do you assess his work in ukraine well first of all he did not work as a lobbyist he worked as a political consultant for one of the democratic political parties in ukraine we we recognize the election of president you kind of it and then after viktor pinchuk paid the clinton foundation ten million dollars. the state department turned their head while you kind of h. was driven from power at the point of a gun not an impeachment not little action but through mob violence in fact i believe it was mr mina for who ordered the who advised the. ukrainian president to join the european union a position that would be adverse to the russian position some members of congress like maxine waters a need to get a map ukraine is not russia ukraine is next to russia they are