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with with blue spring, 121 were than 100000 russian troops had amassed along the ukrainian border in what was then the biggest military deployment. since hostilities between the 2 countries began, ah, in eastern crane's gun, bass region, ukrainian armed forces were fighting russia,

backed separatists good seized control, using russian weapons. from 2014 to 2021. fighting claimed the lives of over 14000 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. u zalinski 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 that royal piece at the european or e u level. there's still really no well thought out strategy on how to deal with russia, human myth, osland own gate. you and the gun union, some fear that puddings go on. ukraine was to reassert russian power by undermining western unity. mooney gold, legina critique, or vladimir putin. it's all deal politics and steel. economics is you, he has no respect for anyone to his people, bison, ukraine, once part of the soviet union was vulnerable to proteins, re venture st ambitions. he missed them at question. as president put, we must assume that president hutton won't keep his word and me won't play by the rules and will be slay, military force, give i dances. it's not

a boom. genie to remember that putin once said, which m. f a fight is inevitable drug. you must do strike 1st, eat not the pew at something to keep in mind, blew back, then it was clear that russia's actions could have global implications. russia's 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. yet it was i, st. georgia board, the you my think it will, it could possibly be it 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 the people that own 30 years after declaring

independence from the soviet union, ukraine was trapped in a conflict with pigeons, russia, he wanted the war to end, and accused moscow of 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 d, i'm wlan shift to muslim. people want to do business with russia. that group is very strong, politically in germany. the dodge and the german committee on eastern european economic relations is extremely active, is not as fight to the se in to is skipped. invite anti 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 . nan tools slant once fuck stack eyes to did was won. 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. e 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 an attack park eve 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, could have shall slip. and when i heard it yesterday, i felt pretty scared. is maria, apparently they've installed missiles that can travel, 270 kilometers. and from belgrade to her, 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 acts, especially as rosa following independence.

some ukrainians have leaned towards western europe, others towards russia. a division that could still be seen and 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 rash 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, you, 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 it meets russia. and that's not just my opinion, but the opinion of my friends to put in claimed russian military action along the border was a response to provocations by nato. he issued a warning to oregon is that they will be,

but i guess it was a pity and leaving curious, i'm lucky because i personally did was really it as a d and the gag. double nosy, me. i'd sure. usually when i do is, when you come or anybody, you are the gold pretty dear with machine your. i see it that was away and we'll craft lucia to adiana would prejudice yet them would him up. but he let kirsten concrete pluto, sammy ukraine's president volota mirror zalinski addressed put in directly with an offer to discuss the conflict. because by give a portion, yoga to fight, ye shall, dash euclid llc, vamps theatre voice digikey grains caught them by gig, atlanta slab on grade. 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. and as she stood it, this is our geography, 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 at, ah, 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. poaching 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? rosa 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. even when you're not around you, it's such a nightmare. keith, go for a lot of 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. yup. what do 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 theatre, a small comedy theatre, coleman d c at alarm. 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, who is it? is a glimpse at that was his thought. nazena lucca. i forgot uncle should. he shows it showed 20 eastern priscilla. fish, and that was the middle of you know, then there are billions of you know, to michel ukrainians, laughed in recognition as the show lampooned, the country's corrupt politics, where oligarchs walking law and money talks about them with what it, it's more the website is younger,

all nothing but rama is the big them that usually asking them why you, michelle, somehow my hands on it up on the mouse. good luck. i talks 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 just video symbol, is that oh stay jessica yet? oh gosh, with a 2nd ill this thought that the estate yonder covert jet built for himself became a tv set, the official residence of sir lensky, fictional president, leicester, dimple. mother, massa watson. yes, it's a big wooden house and it's we're no bizarre, but it's not surprising in terms of a how lavish it is and how expensive it is. because, well,

i think everybody pretty much knew what's 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 way 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,

but that it was premature for us. great premature for ukraine. just 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, with 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 hide 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 to p was convinced that he could keep young coverage and power. and yet you could reach it and regularly told yeah, no coverage that he needed to crack down harder. a confederate had commit prof 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 lexia 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've, we're so happy we thought we could be annexed to me. my friends, everyone,

we kept thinking that russia was going to take us back to get a good many in ukraine, feared exactly that, that cochin would go even further and you know, 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 clean those in c h s. u. and there we found ourselves in a completely new situation. schiff delita, 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, got any price. can you kind e at the county? and lin immediately proceeded with not only to annex crimea,

but to absorb the whole province of crimea, will 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, seed to levy does the best of both guests that she speaks yet a doll fair do sushi de la c dash o in response to crimea, annexation members of the g 7, imposed harsh sanctions against hooting and russia. manhattan guns under ignition them. it is ation that just a vis lily. the russians hadn't expected the west to react. so united lee and decisively and forgotten for clayton in russia that leading representatives often asked me why you of all people that you should understand that we feel humiliated emerge is nothing you yourselves were humiliated after world war one gleiss. but that's not a good historical comparison. gotta the comparison is precisely

a country with such a difficult history as germany flood must stand up resolutely for the law to be upheld most. 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 backed separatists and government forces in the industrial and largely russian speaking. don best region in eastern ukraine. pigeon was accused of fueling the unrest or mr. that she'll be given volney civil but of asia. the more sure to say that i was very surprised would be an exaggeration to him. so $34.00 gyla a. phillip boyce is because i knew one thing from talking to yeltsin or she's

listening to putin. yes, no. and speaking with many russian official, me was simo. oh, really? they kept saying, florrie will be repeating to me. the cooper of ukraine has been, will, is, and will be part of russia's strategic interests, says family that they each sneak in. that's who i see on those. much of this means that russia would never agree to ukraine taking a western position or, you know, virginia law for choosing to follow a civilized western democratic course. soon it is all, no, zach is law, democrat of the general professor. ah, 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. ringback 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 this week. why? we were a family of 2, me and him. and now i'm alone here. i miss him. it was a my heart bleeds because he's gone. he's gone. what were you will he's gone?

who are you overweight? an exodus as people said, don bass maniachi 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. it's glen the whole block. why grab? i mean, like houses shot through destroyed a by my and this is my gift card, where there wasn't that much fighting it the like you've got a gift, bloomingdale by little away with dc. 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, all 298 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, boss o, france,

and germany initiated talks between ukraine and russia. in february 2015 and by the rows, the party signed the minster to agreement. it sought to re establish ukraine's control over its border with russia, but only after elections had been held in the disputed territories. it also required a change to the ukrainian constitution that would grant special status to occupied don boss. the agreement name, rush as a party to the war, despite evidence to the contrary. from such a president, along in his memoirs, french president francois alone described how putin raised his voice in the negotiations and threatened the ukrainian president ought saying he would destroy the ukrainian forces classes, austria. and that's 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 ill. they verbally threatened, ah, military operation in dubai, civil, or which they actually then executed, inwardly protected. but in retrospect, politically speaking, things should have looked a lot different things. russia should have been portrayed as the warring party and ukraine should have been allowed to make demands, among other things under her smith. when confronting putin pushing go, looked weak and dis peace efforts failed. minsk too was never fully implemented. polishing goes 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 enacting the that's a problem infrastructure. so that becomes a threat to him and he's always that's, that's something as 20 to true to a close. ukraine's next presidential race began petro poor, a franco saud reelection. ah, what his main challenger was, a political outsider, followed him here. so lensky could become famous for playing the president on t. v. on the 21st of april, 2019 zalinski was elected with an outbreak majority. he won over 73 percent of the vote, compared to parish ankles. 24 percent he

lensky. that only tenant politic 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 cossack and devoted media attention to the lensky, scanty parish ankle candidacy. does it in sky 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 porous jenko. we didn't want what he had. yeah. as though i was expecting to see in zalinski a liberal,

even if he lacked conviction failure, a man for whom people's rights and freedoms mean something for those that have 0 violence that arises. ah, ne, moscow appeared ill prepared for this which in the service scheduler. oh, tennis, a soviet man after all. so as the rest of the russian leadership a day to and for these people are free and open elections are in general, more than a little suspect. dish 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 need her weakness secure in there because deducing over the ukraine remains unchanging. nato was faced with the dilemma if it granted ukraine membership, the alliance could find itself at war with russia. let's get to the new englanders to our engagement with that alliance. they on going are andros and aggression remains a major challenge for you are lining, securing mm to

fit your staff to see this dual credit? now imagine ukraine becoming an, remember, get the most, 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 chain, this way, dose to put what happened with crimea, is a defensive reaction from russia to that me. and a kind of warning gog we're, look, we russia will not tolerate ukraine becoming a member of nato amer, stella, jim, not. ah, back from brussels. so lensky reached out to vladimir putin on facebook. i'd be a good shot records have been through. he's cuz he gets it like, you know, put you not have a godaddy. nanda dining up. should you chicken? it come with them yet that unless ah,

in late july a ceasefire was agreed to along with an exchange of prisoners zalinski his presidency. got off to a promising start. mm hm . mm hm. we have to begin all the step. bob, literally all the steps in means rolls is in there monday. i hope that i have, i just forgot to say about it. all. a journalist we're we're, i hope will have they me are, is meeting in norman d pharmacy and we'll speak about it. and we'll 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 this horrible war.

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 brain washing that is going on . there are, ah, myriad of images was the posters, sir? referring to the 2nd world war, showing their low, col, 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 bus 0 shopper at the cow. she's k for the rats here, ah, nest, it's a common practice of the russian federation to force people in occupied territories to take russian transports or,

or to change the ethnic composition of the population missional before and the, to colonized such enclaves with new russians. i, it's her additional club, my selling am calling is of our residents of the occupied lu hunt's can donetta regions. young were often simply forced to obtain russian passport. and so for a born interesting washington, the nation yankee, just a bully. without them, they wouldn't be able to live normal lives in the territories, all women, and them all in all my receive state services or confirm their identity. and so i said the wrong awful here, or even if it, 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 powers 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'll my dear friends, who will vote for this will make your place will find your place in the history. because you will give us the ability to rush it to go further. that was we're in judge no, no sanctions in council of europe. there was, there were in georgia, no sanctions were gone. so of europe finally, aggression against your brain, sanctions 5 years and, oh, sorry, we are coming back then in august french president, demo wilma krohn unexpectedly announced his own russia reset policy. lynn, i have de la hudson at duke. he,

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 lou will play, you know, my cool a paulia. pretend it did. dump you a bottle. sulu alicia ah, but eastern european nations expressed concern. your card at such thought look at the bottle. it is some waste thrashing in 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, annually slow because the theory accruing the doubles of, of course, the events and eastern ukraine stoked these fears. yeah, usually it's a striking show causality soon as orderly. me got those, the likely annexation of crimea, the action from don bass and so on. certainly fed these spheres size and so that they became stronger. it is that i hear him, 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. president soleski made his 1st official trip to the us to give his inaugural speech at the united nations in new york. you very much.

allah was a just almost read you them res. vomiting zivare, more visit near my year to enjoy the me new storm last night. most of which one does have miss betsy glee, baby nor amiably. he not even long, but his visit was overshadowed by the scandal engulfing van u. s. 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. dia, i'm the fun from fha one. and the call from trump was outrageous. it outrageous was, is via a nationwide anesthesia. and it wasn't just a nasty call. none behind it was a real and extremely dangerous threat to ukraine. both feel namely, if i remember correctly, that $400000000.00 wouldn't be released from military equipment which ukraine desperately needed. and billy taylor shawls was, don't, did you okay in little english pot? oh, for 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, or the effort to impeach president trump and ukraine, it stopped being a 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 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. it also forced the u. s. 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? what role would he play in the months to come? yes and when did she needs to get? i'm worried. we're not sure why don't you? the troop numbers and equipment near our board is keep increasing. ah, there's real concern. we'll keep it to last or since the beginning of 2014. since the start of the war in dunbar. next year. since russia's annexation of crimea chow, there's been understandable concern. mueller. you will not it fetch and it's did. an escalation could occur at any time. you would, jackie moment shift

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