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. ah, spring 2021. we're than 100000 russian troops had amassed along the ukrainian border in what was send the biggest military deployment since hostilities between the 2 countries began. ah,

in eastern ukraine's dumbass region, ukrainian armed forces were fighting russia back separatists. good seized control, using russian weapons from 2014 to 2021. fighting claim, the lives of over $14000.00 people there. infrastructure and livelihoods were destroyed. ah, for a bloody conflict. further escalated by the russians. in april 2021, ukraine's president followed him usa lensky, looked to the west for support. germany and france sought to mediate eastern european countries,

were alarmed. the e. u was divided. some favored diplomacy. others argued, russian president vladimir putin had little interest in talking with escape of the royal peace that the european or e u level. they're still really know well thought out strategy on how to deal with russia human mit osland allgate. you and the gun union, some feared that puddings go on ukraine, was to reassert russian power by undermining western unity. mooney, quote, let him. yeah. critique or vladimir putin to it's all to your politics and steal economics is you, he has no respect for any one of his people. exxon ukraine. once part of the soviet union was vulnerable to proteins, re van chest ambitions. you mustn't admit question. does president put we must assume that president hotel won't keep his word. denise won't play by the rules and

will be willing to employ a military force. give i as it's not a booms, you need to remember that hootin once said william griffith guide is inevitable. the doctor, you must do strike 1st, eat not the piano, something to keep in mind lou. back then, it was clear that rushes actions could have global implications. rushes behavior towards ukraine had already triggered a new cold war. and europe seemed powerless to stop it. in this film we talked to international experts, people on the street and ukraine's president in a country on the brink of war to build it. the other question i said was board the you my think it will, it could possibly be 3 to world war 32 and then europe,

our neighbors in the countries of the european union, they will all suffer as a result direct when they see posters that boom 30 years after declaring independence from the soviet union, ukraine was trapped in a conflict with pigeons, russia, keith wanted the war to end and accused moscow, o fomenting on rest in ukrainian sovereign territory. they are actually leading the fighting in ukraine. but nonetheless, it's hard to get to a point where you are talking about constructive actions to end the conflict if russia is, in fact, denying that it's doing in european heavyweights, germany and france stood by ukraine to appoint lou danville and shift to muslim. people want to do business with russia. that group has very strong politically and germany since the

german committee on eastern european economic relations is extremely active, is comp not adverse fight took us into escaped invite and ty, and in addition, large parts of the german population feel a great resonance with gun and closeness to russia wouldn't more so than to the usa . nea till wasn't once fuck dark eyes to it. it was on was at him, you put in, wanted to reassert brushes, status as a global superpower, and appeared, determined to expand russia's sphere of influence. he fled, say russia swallows ukraine. it makes it that different russia and this is, this is the russian calculus. it needs to control covertly, overtly ukraine in order to expose and project also european influence. then in the spring of 2021 russian military maneuvers on the border with ukraine

breezed concerns. was putin planning in attack or cave in the east of ukraine lies just 40 kilometers from the russian border. people here feared their city would be in the line of fire credentials so that when i heard it yesterday, i felt pretty scared is very near. apparently they've installed missiles that can travel 270 kilometers. and from belgrade to har, keith is what? 45, yes. and if we get hit then that's it. that's the end. so the can, yes, no stress, it's very scary that this could reach us any more that we could be forced to leave . yes. move away and all that. because nobody knows what will happen nak,

suspension is rasa. following independence. some ukrainians have leaned towards western europe, others towards russia. a division that could still be seen in far, keith, when we filmed there, sometimes with russia, including family ties, remained strong at the time. is need to got most of how can rush happy our enemy, when they are people that he's our own people. we have the same mentality. we have the same roots, we have today. history. yes, you do still used you, but as long as there you go to in my there will be no war or hostility. everything will be fine as long as police meet russia. and that's not just my opinion, but the opinion of my friends to put in plain russian military action along the border, was

a response to provocations by nato. he issued a warning to oregon is that there will be, but a white guest supervisor pityingly. when kitty, a similar shape is i personally was relieved as a d in the gag, double nosy, yet you usually non, i do explain. you come or anybody, you are the gold but it you with machine your i see that was away. move, cross new jer to arcadia, and i will just credit yet them with him up. but he let custom concrete plushie, samuel ukraine's president followed him. usa lensky, addressed, put in directly with an offer to discuss the conflict. because by guild a butcher, you're going to fight ye shall, dash euclid llc farms, theatre voice, which k o crane's garden. buff gigi, atlanta slow grain putting declined zalinski z

invitation. he said zalinski should discuss the conflict with the separatists in eastern ukraine. not moscow, or denial of russia's involvement in the war. now put in was openly demonstrating russia's military might write on ukraine's porter. my porch was sheet, we're close to, we're neighbors in a, she stood it. this is angie or graphy, our history and life. so i can probably tell why this is happening, cousin badge, the 1st of all it was to test the strength of the new administration of the president of the united states. and to see his reaction on that again, e o, but the, your order in mid april u. s. president joe biden reached out to his russian counterpart and invited him to a summit. biden wanted to talk face to face, to dial down the bellicose rhetoric. pigeons, military demonstration had gotten by his attention.

i think vladimir couldn't does deserve credit for being one of the most strategic minded and patient. ah, leaders in europe right now. he knows what he wants to do. he's patient about it. he does it. and he exploits weaknesses, exploits division, exploits opportunities as their eyes put in announced the end of military maneuvers and the withdrawal of troops. the immediate danger had been averted, but ukrainian forces remained on alert. observers reported russian military hardware stayed in place in cave. tensions ran high. who?

who are caea is. asher is an aggressor and it must be slighted everywhere from every microphone. every one should know that he was not the figures. daniel, where there's this feeling like the world is ruled by teenagers, is the whole whose bodies are surging with hormones. 0 to one. you know, to, can you? it's such a nightmare. the gauges go. florida. volota musa lensky was no ordinary president. prior to his election, he spent years slings, a ukrainian president on t. v. in the late 19 ninety's, the russian speaking zalinski studied law in his home city of creevy and central ukraine. genevieve start the advocates on him that he is booty does. he said, i didn't dream of becoming a lawyer or a serious prosecutor off what? you know, i didn't want all that and i wanted to be a student. so back then, we set up a small theater. he knew more of a comedy theater, a small comedy theatre coleman g. seattle,

and the key common genie adapted zelinski left law behind when he graduated from college and made comedy his profession by 2014. he was working on a new tv series servant of the people in the satirical comedy, zalinski play the history teacher who's unexpectedly elected president. after promising to tackle corruption from just with the series made its debut in 2015 and was a huge hit something with oh was it isn't good. him said that was his thought. nazena luca, i forgot uncle should he shows it show 20 mister garcia, fish. and that was similar, fiona, and there are billions of you know, to michelle. ukrainians laughed in recognition as the show lampooned, the country's corrupt politics,

where oligarchs walking law and money talks about them with right, it's more, the website is younger all nothing. but rama is the big them that you really asking them you why you, michelle? somehow my hands on it up on the mouse. good luck. i hugs that the series debuted at just the right time, a year before ukraine's then president victor yanna coach, had been forced from office and the full extent of his wealth and embezzlement, exposed. while i'm assisting each is video symbol is that hosty jessica? yet? oh gosh. i don't. i 2nd it was, they stopped that the estate younger coverage had built for himself became a tv set. the official residents. osa lensky is fictional president who goes to you put up a muscle watson yes, it's a big wooden house and it's we're no bizarre. but it's not surprising in terms of

how luggage it is and how expensive it is because. well, i think everybody pretty much knew was i mean, how, how much money is being stolen and how, how it is use. the real life story that led to yanna coach's departure is dramatic . it marked as see changing ukraine's identity as well as in its relationship with putins, russia, from one of relative harmony to hostility. in november 2013, the president general coverage refused to sign a trade agreement with the e. you hm. yeah, you more reasonable e, it's critical skill though i told him directly and openly where aerobic victor, federal, which you are making a big mistake. we should order. who could a uni. oh no, he replied that the ukrainian government,

even after analyzing the pros and cons of such a course, we had come to the conclusion that it was premature for us. great premature for ukraine job to take an active step towards europe. the riley goof, le euro and that we should remain in the orbit of the soviet. there's the not soviet, but russian system redone to per ye. yeah, it does get i received. ah, ah. in keith, through western ukrainians, poured on to the streets and protest. lee demanded jenna coverage. either sign the agreement with the you or leave office you will cut, you know, if we look at the people who went to these protests in ukraine in 2014 decent,

put these people were no longer divided between east and west. despite though the majority of them came, of course, from the very nationally oriented west, not truly or let's not say the majority and he had a large proportion mia and causality. instead young cove, which turned to moscow for aid. tensions were high demonstrations continued in february 2014 ukrainian security forces attacked protesters gathered on the my done or independence square in central cave . oh, in total, more than $100.00 people were killed. ukraine's parliament voted to impeach the president general coverage for the country. his destination,

russia dead yet in vladimir putin had not anticipated the scenario at all. he did the p was convinced that he could keep young coverage and power and you and you could reach and regularly told yeah, no coverage that he needed to crack down harder. a confederate had chronic grief optimal. ah, but not all ukrainian supported the protest. mm. exploding pro russian sentiment in the east. in march 2014 poaching illegally annexed crimea, while maintaining it was a secession. the annexation of the strategic legacy peninsula quickly followed sundays, hastily called referendum, in which its residence overwhelmingly backed breaking from ukraine. and joining russia was led to and crimea was annexed. we were so happy we thought we could be

annexed to me. my friends, every one we kept thinking that russia was going to take us back to get a good many in ukraine feared exactly that. that coaching would go even further, who i knew what they could do. the same thing that they did with crimea will objectively they have enough resources for that, that the western alliance, meanwhile, was stymied enough. newsome employee those in c h s, u. and there we found ourselves in a completely new situation. schiff duly thought, who, where the russian head of state had basically made choices for the great country of ukraine, and try to keep its president in place of got any price. can you kind e at the county. alton lan immediately proceeded not only to annex crimea,

but to absorb the whole province, have crimea, or city as well as the city, as the last appointed me, which has a special status. ah laptops you and to make them both subjects of the russian federation, c de la villette. does he best the boy get that to be seen? a doll fair do sushi de larry dash o? in response to crimean annexation, members of the g 7 imposed harsh sanctions against putting and russia manhattan guns under ignition them. it is ation that just a vesting lily. the russians hadn't expected the west to react. so united lee and decisively and she went in for clayton in russia, there were leading representatives often asked me why you of all people that you should understand that we feel humiliated images, not them. you yourselves were humiliated after world war one gleiss,

but that's not a good historical comparison garden. the comparison is precisely a country with such a difficult history as germany flood must stand up resolutely for the law to be upheld. that's why the message that had to be sent was a red line has been reached. i know here in india. oh, in april 2014 tensions rose again. fighting broke out between russian back separatists and government forces in the industrial and to launch the russian speaking. don bass region in houston, ukraine, m 14 was accused of fueling the unrest or a civil. but if each of them will show to say that i was very surprised, it would be an exaggeration to my food. she for gyla

a film which is because i knew one thing from talking to yeltsin or she listening to potent yes no. and speaking with many russian official with me, was simo oh really? they kept saying for you all in repeating to me, the cooper of ukraine has been, will, is, and will be part of russia's strategic interests. systemic that they each sneak into 2 of those, much of this means that russia would never agree to ukraine. taking a western position where you vanilla for choosing to follow a civilized. western democratic course says law. zach is law, democrat of the general part of the conflict escalated quickly within the 1st few months. hundreds of ukrainian service

men and volunteers were killed. there's evidence, rush and weaponry. had been supplied to the separatists, and some russian soldiers were fighting alongside the rebels. lou august 29th. so close to $400.00 fatalities. the highest number on any single day up to that point. this man's 26 year old brother jimmy throat was among those killed due to the me. he was everything is me why we were a family of 2 me and him with you and now i'm alone. here. i miss him. it

was a my heart bleeds because he's gone. he's gone. louis where you will. he's gone. who are you overweight? an exodus as people said, don bass munoz came to me of an i am very angry. yes, it pains me a lot. i come from there and like my city has half destroyed. awesome. my kids got really one. there. it is in ruin. this is the school i went to for 9 years is half destroyed. is glen the whole block where i grew up? i mean, like houses shot through destroyed a bit more, and this is my gift card, where there wasn't that much fighting. it's like you've got to just be a little boy with hasty. the impact of the conflict was felt far beyond ukraine's borders. in july 2014 passenger fight m

h 17 on route from amsterdam to kuala lumpur was shot down over separatist held don bus. lou old you 198 people on board. died, evidence emerged that the plane was hit by a book surface to air missile belonging to a russian anti aircraft missile brigade. suddenly the conflict was making international headlines. russia was waging a covert war on european soil and killing you citizens. ah, in 2 months earlier before the war escalated oligarch and former government minister, petro porsche jenko had been elected president of ukraine on a pro european anti corruption ticket. he pledged to return crimea to ukraine and,

and the war and don bass. o france and germany initiated talks between ukraine and russia. in february 2015 and by the rose, the party signed the minster to agreement. it san, to re establish ukraine's control over its border with russia, but only after elections had been held in the dispute territories. it also required a change to the ukrainian constitution that would grant special status to occupied don boss. the agreement didn't name rush as a party to the war. despite evidence to the contrary. unsocial president, along in his memoirs, french president, francois alone described how putin raised his voice in the negotiations and threatened the ukrainian president award saying would destroy the ukrainian forces,

classes or school, unless the best evidence that russia was very active there. and these protocols, as they also called, were assigned literally under the gunshot, because russians are they verbally threatened ah, military operation in the, by civil on which they actually then executed, inwardly protected, put it in retrospect, politically speaking, things should have looked a lot different with in russia should have been portrayed as the warring party and ukraine should have been allowed to make demands. among other things under huffman, when confronting pigeon polishing, go looked weak and dis peace efforts failed. minsk too was never fully implemented . polishing coast reforms were also called into question or assessment. that is that he a did the things that he had to do that for the results of joint pressure from the civil society and from the international community. i don't think it was ever

serious about um, really making a change in the system and, and annexing the that's a problem infrastructure. so that becomes a threat to him, and he's always that's, that's something as 20 tune true to a close ukraine's next presidential race began petro, poor of sango song, reelection was main challenger was a political outsider, followed him. your soleski could become famous for playing the president on tv. on the 21st of april, 2019 zalinski was elected with an outright majority. he won over 73 percent of the vote, compared to parish ankles. 24 percent. he

lensky. that only 10 unclick zalinski was never a politician. and he still not won a security press, but it worked because he was strongly supported by several very powerful oligarchy in the media. your finances, they financed his campaign. cafe and devoted media attention to the landscape, anti parish ankle candidacy. does it in ski? ah, in a seeming paradox, zalinski was elected. you largely thanks to the oligarchs backing. yet his ordinary man, anti corruption persona one over the voters. i voted for zalinski . here we no longer wanted porridge, sankoh,

we didn't want what he had. yeah. as though i was expecting to see in zalinski illiberal, even if he lacked conviction, you're a man for whom people's rights and freedoms mean something for those that have 0, violet that arises. ah, ne, moscow appeared ill prepared for this foot in the soviet scheduler. oh, $10.00 as a soviet man, after all. so as the rest of the russian leadership age and for these people are free and open elections are in general more than a little suspect. bish wooded. you've gone when. who in his inaugural address, president zalinski said his 1st priority was to bring peace to don bass and, and the war with russia. he

travelled 1st to brussels, now playing the statesman in real life with their strategic course of ukraine to achieve full fledged membership. in the e. u and nita regis, secure in their cars, did use in over you. you grain remains unchanging. nato was faced with the dilemma if it granted ukraine membership, the alliance could find itself at war with russia. why do you mean business to our engagement with that alliance? they on going aren't ross and aggression remains a major challenge for you? are outlining, securing mm to

p, it discussed to see this dual credit. now imagine ukraine becoming a nato member at the most good, which is what they're striving for. so not the plea. that would mean nato is suddenly on rushes at southwest border if the work done them food shane this way, dose to prove what happened with crimea is a defensive reaction from russia at me. and the kind of warning good we're, look, we russia will not tolerate ukraine becoming a member of nato. amer, stella, jim, not that. ah. back from brussels, zalinski reached out to vladimir putin on facebook. i'd be a good shot. records have been braced his coffee data like you middle portion, not the balise. honda dining up, should you chicken econ,

with ah, in late july a ceasefire was agreed to along with an exchange of prisoners zalinski his presidency. got off to a promising start. ah ah ah, we have to begin all the steps publicly. all the steps in means girls is in there monday. i hope that i have, i just forgot to say about it. all. a journalist we, i hope will have they me are, is meeting in norman, be pharmacists, and will speak about teeth and will speak all the steps. you're in the, not the future i during the near future. we have to do all this stuff to finish

these horrible war. ah, but zalinski soon saw that russia was holding fast to don bass. ah, well, we have little information about what is going on in the occupied thoughts of dun boss, but what we know is that there is quite substantial, brainwashing that is going on there. ah, ah, myriad of images was the posters, sir? referring to the 2nd world war, showing their low cold kind of leaders was children and saying how they are defending this territory from, you know, vicious ukrainian regime. russia was also handing out lots of passports and on bass zation on blackout. she's pay for the rats here. ah, nest, it's

a common practice of the russian federation to force people in occupied territories to take russian transport or, or to change the ethnic composition of the population missional before and the to colonized such enclaves with new russians. i'd say admission is club ma, selling em colon use of our residents of the occupied lu hunt's can donetta regions . young were often simply forced to obtain russian pos pool. and so for one interesting washington, the nation yankee, just a bully. without them, they wouldn't be able to leave normal lives in the territories all when they them all in all my receive state services or confirm their identity. and so i think there's an awful here or even to think which is sir it in the future swears over it like that. the signals coming from germany and france were hard to read after 2015 and the failure to implement the minsk agreements. the warn ukraine seemed to have largely been forgotten. in 2019 berlin in paris

successfully lobbied for russia to be reinstated in the council of europe. it had been expelled in 2014. following the annexation of crimea. ukraine's representatives were furious. you, my dear friends who will vote for these will make your plays, will find your place in the history because you will give us the ability to rush it to go further. that was wore in judge no, no sanctions in council of europe. there was, there were in georgia, no sanctions council of europe. finally aggression against your brain sanctions 5 years. and, oh, sorry, we are coming back. then in august french, president manuel, my crone unexpectedly announced his own russia reset policy.

lin, i've de la hudson and dicky france has long dreamed of being the power that maintains the balance in europe between east and west on the hook uplifted whist. so let's just say in addition to other economic and politically important decisions being made by the new french president, in the context of french politics, the, for my call to so hutton was an important pond on the chessboard, cafe louisville play. you know, my cool paulia pretend it didn't show up. bottle sulu alicia ah, but eastern european nations expressed concern your card at this thought look at it to some ways trashy and booth shook sadly at school. it is formerly,

it seems to me that the fears of the former soviet republics, especially the baltic states, are quite understandable with them because the memory of how they were incorporated into the u. s. s. r is still very much alive. he only slow because the theory a growing doubles up, of course, the events and eastern ukraine stoked these fears. yeah, usually it's a striking show causality resort. only me that those the lightly annexation of crimea, the action from don bass and so on. certainly fed the spheres side and so that they became stronger. it is that i hear, but bitterly thine is the navy sitting in blue, france and germany will question marks. but in the past, ukraine had always been able to look to the united states for support. been september 2019 christalin soleski made his 1st official trip to the us to give his

inaugural speech at the united nations in new york. thank you very much. i la was it just almost read you them res. vomit zivare more busy near my year? to enjoy the me. new storm. last name moser. but why does it have miss betsy glee, baby, nor amiably, did he not you wrong. but his visit was overshadowed by the scandal engulfing venue as president donald trump, in which he played a big part. it hinged on a phone call between the 2 men, 2 months before in july 2019 or in the call. trump asked ukraine to investigate his democratic rival, joe biden, and his son hunter. if ukraine refused us 8 would be withheld. i wanna know what 12 well, so when president donald trump froze $400000000.00 in

u. s. military aid to ukraine, to allegedly pressure the country's leader for personal political favor. ukrainians got nervous the i'm the fun from fha one. and the call from trump was outrageous. it outrageous was his via nationwide and his tisha. and it wasn't just a nasty call. none behind it was a real and extremely dangerous threat to ukraine, both to feel namely, if i remember correctly, that $400000000.00 wouldn't be released from military equipment which ukraine desperately needed. and billy taylor shaws was don't, did you okay in english pot? oh, after that phone call in july, zalinski was pressured by members of trump's inner circle to make a public statement that ukraine would investigate the biden's. in september, the press began reporting on trump's demand for an investigation in exchange for

aid. under mounting pressure, trump released a rough transcript of his call with zalinski by then, democrats in congress, had launched a formal impeachment, inquiry blue trunks, impeachment impacted ukraine's relationship with the united states. mm. mm. so what happened is a u. s. domestic politics exploded over the effort to impeach president trump and ukraine. it stopped being in national security concern and a foreign policy concern. and instead became a prop. i was, it was a device for going after the president are going after the democrats. ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback it took a crisis on the ukrainian border puddings military maneuvers in the spring of 2021

to push ukraine towards the top of new president, jo biden's political agenda. he'd also force the us and europe to rethink their own relationship with russia. should they be staunch allies for ukraine, or should they keep their distance? what about zalinski? ah, what role would he play in the months to come? yes, when visionary needs to be, i'm worried when i should call doing the trip numbers and equipment near i bought. is cape increasing as real concern with the last or since the beginning of 2014. since the start of the war in dunbar seems rushes annexation of crimea. so there's been understandable concern meal. he will not it fetch and it's that an escalation

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