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hm . oh. ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback 30 years after gaining independence, ukraine found itself under massive pressure from its superpower neighbor. in the spring of 2021, a build up of russian troops along the border to ukraine, had alarm bells ringing. it was the biggest military maneuver since hostilities commenced in 2014, when russia annexed the crimea, and cilla, and to pro moscow separatists took control of the don bass region in eastern

ukraine. by the end of 2021. the subsequent years of fighting had caused some 14000 people's lives. countless homes were destroyed, and communities devastated. was russia planning to invade? dow dead on by. don bass itself is not the cause of the conflict, was the cause of the conflict is a larger geopolitical constellation, ukraine's president followed him here. zalinski said his russian counterpart was challenging the west who young budgets should sibyl for me. it was born out of a desire to assert power. i know a show of strength, the lot the seal. and clearly it was an attempt to intimidate on. yeah. to see how

the european union would respond to your bicycle, say your role. and vladimir putin was expecting a week response, a spin me a mission seeker up to you. i'm not sure that the european union is really prepared to seriously challenge the kremlin in coming osmond b. i'm really not sure to ha, ah, the leaders of the g 7 group of western industrial powers put on a united front, calling on russia to deescalate the situation. it will new all food this at the end of the day, van mall. it was a very delicate situation for us who knew severely knew we couldn't influence person and feel secret at the same time. then the we understood that we couldn't not talk to him who will bow to verbally and he keeps

ukrainian president followed him. years alone, ski visited the front line, accompanied by t v cameras and battle ready troops. he wanted to show that his country was willing and able to fight, but it seemed coaching had achieved his goal, praying both ukraine and the west on alert. he ended the military maneuver and denounced the troops would be withdrawing. but military hardware remained on the ground. ready for the next deployment? it was a problem that extended beyond ukraine, that russia's military might threaten the security of europe as a whole. in 2021, the armed conflict in eastern ukraine entered its 8th year. russia, as you know,

consistently denies that it has anything to do with the fighting and eastern ukraine. complete, fabrication, the you had made efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict. but there were doubt as to whether putin was even interested. i can't tell you how many times i've heard european leaders say, we need to work with russia. we need to engage with russia. i have, he never heard anyone say russia needs to work with us. russia needs to engage with us. mm. in ukraine itself. these developments were seen with widespread disappointment. just look out which one is the honest national cream i have, the feeling that ukraine is alone in its political struggle with russia. you sure there is support that we are, but it's not enough in my opinion solvable, and we're still alone in the war along with

them as to the question of what should be done? opinion was still divided when we filmed this answer, cuz it was the hope of your thought it was over. well, does she do it just leave dunbar alone? it's not worth the human price. that one of these separatists are just people who want to have independence as is their right. you will, if someone like britain for example, wants to leave the european union, then they have every right to do. so could you thrive. i just put the wish that you see where things that you know that you only bravo. president zalinski was voted into office in 2019 on a mandate that included ending the war and don bass. and his pledge to bring the country together, won him major support in both the west and east of the country. don't will show a yet. d, spare a regions of ukraine. we're 30 to 50 percent of the people's 8 russians are eulogy

i myself, come from one such family from the disney proper trumps gretchen. and let me prove it all she knew. unfortunately, most of the people who died also came from our region her last, that's not a boast. rather, this is about a high tree. it isn't and defending ukraine, these bro graham, among his objectives was returning the crimea, to ukraine. moscow's alex sation of the peninsula in 2014, in violation of international law, consolidated russian access to the strategically important black sea. ah, a zalinski himself was a novice on the political stage prior to selection in 2019, he had played a fictional precedent on tv. what was emily? john only you who do not see uglier.

and jessica boston, but a woman was willing estimate. zalinski wrote and start in the satirical show, his election turned fiction into a reality. which narrow blood dr. young. the president agreed to an interview when this film was made to make an appeal to the west. his country was anxious for guarantees of security, and he hoped that nieto and the e. you could help lament beauty that mother me. the top priority is strong relations and military assistance. these god, the balmore, la man ability for me, the priority is pacing ukraine to more and every one who can bring that about everyone who can be proactive. rock tip. shortly after becoming president of the summer of 2019 zalinski reached out to vladimir putin

asking for a personal meeting. you crank, cannot reclaim control over crimea, or didn't boss in the military way. i mean, right now you grains military positioning is mostly defensive rather than offensive . so did diplomatic track remains very important. in november 2019 president in manuel macaroni of france and chancellor angel immacule of germany announced they would resume meetings with the leaders of russia and ukraine. 3 years had elapsed since the last of these normandy format talks. ah, what was the lensky prepared for negotiations in paris? protesters poured into the streets of keith. his predecessor, petro porsche ango,

addressed the assembled crowd. well, we say we're here to day because we believe in our victory. oh, we're also here to prevent our defeat, i'm afraid. what are we sincerely wish the ukrainian delegation success to morrow? graves be delivered to the protesters, feared that zalinski would accept a plan bleed out 3 years earlier by the then german foreign minister, frank far to shine maia. that proposal aim to if i the implementation of the minsk agreements. the shine by your formula envisaged free and fair elections in the dawn bus under ukrainian law or verification by international observers. and then depending on the result self governing status for the regions in question ah

ah. the summit took place in paris on december 9th, 2019 with well, pigeon said he welcomed the shine meyer formula. he insisted on a change, namely that russia would relinquish its control over the border only after the elections. zalinski wanted ukrainian troops to secure the border with russia before elections were held. otherwise he feared only puppets of the kremlin would run. they'd then rubber stamp russian control overdone, boss. the summit ended without a breakthrough. b i o those little progress has been made. skeptics in ukraine and

abroad were relieved. they worried zalinski would buckle under pressure from the vastly more experienced poaching. and i think that psalm, it's really changed the dynamic way ukraine, germany and france became more united than that france to do an entire ford needs protocols. the way keith interprets them an understanding the dangers of pushing further ukraine to implement disagreements, the way russia seized them, and russia seized them as the way to actually make ukraine weaker. one issue was the quest for peace in dawn, but the other was the threat to human rights.

so thought says serves faded. the dreaming of the human rights situation in eastern ukraine is a polling no more to leave off. now, before and after a thought her her in the occupied territories, it's impossible to express political views unless they conform with those promoted by the russian back rulers. all pope on which assist before either somebody here expressing any support for ukraine or for europe. and they can see you put in jail or tortured luviere talk of mother or even abducted and executed them in the forum. infect dahlia. a bull nodded sher wicker than youth stretching him. moscow lodged a series of complaints with the european court of human rights, alleging that ukrainian forces were attacking russian speakers in don bass sick.

yay, jani. qr a minute. so what's ironic is the and again, dresser is that the russian authorities now decided to burden the european court of human rights with legal actions against the ukrainians date, if you, to, it's a tactic always used by the kremlin and it's intelligent services to take our own system and use it against asada and victim in this case is quite clearly we knew enough ukraine. latina evie demo? see you can russian lawyers flooded the court with 6000 claims against ukraine on the grounds of alleged human rights abuses in don bass. claims vigorously disputed by the humanitarian agencies operating in the area.

he had tacos and they think that they had sher several 1000 people. questions before. it's hard to establish the exact number right now, have faced reprisals to, to their political belief. lang. and was, in some cases in the, for expressing very restrained, criticism of actions taken by the occupying authorities seized ratty. the situation in crimea was not much better. thus, is midday. what about the problem that russia is constantly taking political prisoners in the crimea remarked, carrying out large scale repression assures it's a really bad domestic political situation there. hm. guardian is especially for those who are loyal to ukraine in as it, as my merrily crimean totters and ukrainians, and, or krajina. in june 2021, the e. u leadership passed a resolution condemning russia. they called on moscow to cease human rights

violations against crimean charters. and members of other local communities. a month earlier, zalinski had held a press conference marking the 2nd anniversary of his tenure as president. he was eager to be seen as a strong leader with a pro reform agenda. and chief among the points he addressed was a builds, would limit corruption, and the power of the oligarchs zalinski owed his presidency to one such tycoon. e hor, column whiskey whose one plus one tv channel had been a driving force behind his campaign. column whiskey was a controversial figure who had already been a player in ukrainian politics for many years as governor. this could be as governor of the naval petros, gretchen, for example. you feel if he financed a number of voluntary units that also defended ukraine against russia column was

ocala. mirsky was able to as it were, position himself as a pro ukrainian oligarchy, carina charlotte and without a doubt ordered. so i thought it was very important that the southeast of ukraine remained stable to believe myth to some avi palomo sky was co owner of the pre wire to bunk on 5000 system. and in 2016, if, as part of the banking reforms you or your color moist, keith private bank was nationalized were the 1st utley. it was nationalized to save ukraine's financial system. and the bank itself, there from collapse in portland, with zalinski now in power colon whiskey wanted to reclaim the bank and money he said had been stolen from him. the

international monetary fund warned ukraine it would withhold $8000000000.00 and funding if the bank was returned to column or ski for zalinski, a litmus test once we are what we've seen under zalinski is that he was very restrained when it came to color. mosquito dish, var zalinski withstood pressure from the oligarchs and back to bill that would prevent the return of national ice banks to their previous owners. pick yamashita cover tang among just goes are going on those as a journalist? yes. are those the last boy which is chablis? the thermal and says on the prayer, you keep a winner the his, the do green school in common yet minimum the line and will win him though his feet, the it, the ball, marty grainy summers on us because there all the,

i saw there, i a math and you and washington, where on this case, zalesky, even if you wanted actually had no wiggle room, because it's such an important case. off of transparency blue in october 2020 of further challenge for zalinski. this time from the countries judiciary. ukraine's constitutional court issued a ruling that struck down parts of the anti corruption legislation and the endurance, all the constitutional court not only sat us back several years in terms of underbrush. nephrons he's also ah, aim to. so i think what, what the rush with russia and, and, and the oligarchy, and that is the,

the very relationship with when you pray that the west, which was the house, was built by running a miami. uh huh. no problem. protestors demanded that the court judges resign. zalinski the self styled servant of the people responded. he submitted a bill to the parliament, declaring the court's ruling null and void. and he too called on the judges to quit . mm. yeah. was i shy? i think we reacted quickly designed correctly. oh growling for it's part the use anti corruption body, criticized the bill, calling it a blatant breach of the constitution escape. nice. no damage, not just about firing people. zone and it's about gradual renewal. puts it using

transparent procedures based on certain legal principles, iep, urine, and the problem. dina, is that so lensky is someone who has no experience in dealing with institution in ski and institutional procedures ongoing. as far as i can see, that he has a problem with following procedure or blame it. what's the dwaa? zalinski bill was withdrawn. even members of his own party rejected the bill as unconstitutional. in early february 2021, sir lensky launched a fresh attempt to curb russian influence in ukraine. the french does have some new government, pretty davinsky, as you know, each this just recently presidents, a landscape personally closed down 3 ukrainian t v stations by decree. but also because they were crow russian at about

a good that says a lot about press freedom in ukraine, a p church official grade blue . the broadcasters in question were controlled by vladimir putin closest ally in ukraine, vic through mid vit. joke up through. there is no getting around the fact that these stations, and indeed everything supported by mister med that shook our platform or malignant russian influence in ukraine. krajina. the move was supported by the us and britain . but the e, you was circumspect insisting the move should not come at the expense of media freedom. when then, of course, mister med, that shook has a great argument for telling his voters in the ease of his will. this is on democratic. even europe agrees with me, and therein lies the danger. ha!

so lensky stood his ground sat connelly. sloane this is about broadcast his and information policy visit for him. it's about the fight against misinformation and cybersecurity said, but i, i know these 3 stations are actually the voice of another country in the sovereign state of ukraine. said now mostly it's not acceptable you, their funding is a flow of money from various sources that isn't including from the occupied territories, charge them just a little boy, when you did a thorny business. certain individuals linked to these broadcasters, do business with terrorist. he yaki might of an alleged denise booty cannot. mm. back home, the president saw his support dwindling in october 2021. the pandora papers alleged zalinski involvement and clandestine offshore deals. ready

i'd been hoping soleski was not part of the system for a man who could drain this disgusting swan if you look at, but he's fallen into it himself. you over you them? yes, it is for me zalinski as an actor director. and that's it. a good actor, a very good director, a talented man and that respect to him. but as a president, he's a nobody as 0. but instead of being a leader, he's led by others. so my job lou in local elections in october 2020 votes for ssl and skis, party servant of the people plummeted. if you look at the southeast of ukraine, you have quite strong arms. the strong support for the opposition look for live. that's a former patio for president general coverage and they use media resources. they

use the internet. ah, one of the such new political parties of chevy that is completely digital in a way of far, he spreads his ideas through youtube years to 1000000 followers. and they are really vicious, the message is that he is being projecting they are very disrespectful to the office of the president. mm. the drubbing at the polls was a serious disappointment. but there was another source of frustration, a sense that europe demanded a code of conduct in ukraine that they did not adhere to themselves. a notable example, germany yob looks often dodged in germany. we have a lot of influential people who, for example, after quit and politics are recruited, take stream li,

lucrative positions lost in russian companies will always get a minute. yes. fluids ear, um promotion. unless you look on only in germany, there have been people in aid and industry and in the political world who've been major supporters of putin, especially in recent years old. she put in and they have close ties to potent the lead rationally and such as gas prom and other elements. oh, i is of sake though there was substantial cooperation with germany. you can. i me just get that there would be just the darkness vitamins get minute below which is seen him. meanwhile, germany had its own issues with russia. in the spring of 2020 berlin called for further sanctions on moscow. in retaliation for a cyber attack on the german parliament in 2015 and the contract killing of a georgian citizen in bruin,

there was growing pause for germany to take action against moscow even to abandon the north stream 2 gas pipeline project. 2 of you just sent us, ma'am, we hear repeatedly that in order to deal with russia, we should take far tougher measures. hm. and challenge individual large scale economic projects and that's where the name nord stream to comes out. it's been spike the pipeline would supply russian jazz fire, the baltic sea to germany, socum navigating ukraine. and that will deprive ukraine of around 2000000000 income in transfer fees from, you know, from this gas and in systems, especially by germany. that this is purely business project, not political project, to trying to prevent nordstrom juice completion. then you as president,

donald trump, imposed sanctions on the companies involved in its construction. nordstrom to is a purely political project by russia. and then if there are any issues that russia then wants to use and apply pressure on ukraine or pressure on the baltic states or pressure on poland, germany on the land says, oh, will stand up for the interests of those countries. but russia knows that a won't want to interrupt that business relationship with russia. ah, president zalinski had hoped for more support from the west. william, so be midnight bull, ned, thy bull yet to reach his cause. imagine i will ship that. the god forbid. no eat, god forbid, in a gardonia, i'll say it 3 times. faith, god forbid that this should happen. imagine there are troops on the border of

a european state, such as germany, e, you make, and germany is firing on these troops. the land. these troops are shooting at germany. see the scar, city laird bull. you manchin. e wrap them would you mind? and i asked men, let's say you have a war where there's shooting and people being killed, slow v. now bully pause to deal with it. but you continue working with a country on an independent industrial project and then called node strain as the breath. see you crazy? now big nozzle will be neat. me put you. the answer is obviously but know her and dawn lead that. if jordan as ye rope ask no european head of state would be supported by the population. yes, if they said one is look, this is about the economy. economical as is about geo politics. unless we watched this project will boost the economy of this country. your war with ye, graham. zip,

were we of or you, it would sit in ish or so you said blue blue. germany's committee street. you also created friction with its european union partners. the ease you had set targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and scaling up the use of renewable energy. visits that misty del appeased yawn about investing. we are members of the european union that in certain areas it, we're prone to compromising our common o u policy of the deck, and that's precisely the weak spot that the kremlin is working towards every day. the funny but so it does feel and i firmly believe that we do not get any respect

and the kremlin either. we come pick a nissan kind of spect via that's because we tend to be naive wine and take the money 5 ya. we pursue our own interests, 5 and because the noblest standards we set out in our policy making the claim based on certain value and evidently not being reinforced. as they shad cleveland, via 10 ish, tim ist least deem via is enough to select the gasket. oh, joseph robinson, by the junior, your solemn is where i will faithfully deserve infecting the fan, and i say so help you. god, so help me god. to regulation in january 2021, joe biden was sworn in as the new president of the united states. zalinski was

among the 1st to congratulate him, ali selection only to receive a muted response. then his hut feeling either to the biden camp had been put off by some of zalinski, his actions on zelinski game as is each bit remember the phone call between so lance can tram when soleski made all sorts of strange remarks. i'm not going to do martha yos amuse ship. i'm glad me. stripes in the law, but i was noticing the baton unit. little did. i appreciate that the new administration was dealing with internal security and other domestic issues and as that out there. sadly, i'm beaty, i was waiting for a coal. not for myself, 1000. 0, for photos of me with the president of the u. s. store, i blame no. not for that. no. but to see if we could build a new relationship even to re boot santa by them to get

a sense from president biden, that we hadn't lost anything of pocky as bees even more that there might be an increase in health and support for ukraine there. because he knows ukraine better than president cramp, crashing nice or is done through putting was likewise eager to talk to prison in biden, if he can position russia as the equal of the united states. that diminishes france and germany and european union gave making his job in europe easier. and he knows that the u. s. will not have the sustainable engagement and attention, especially at the highest levels that europe puts into these issues. so it's a tactic for trying to divide and weaken trans atlantic community, and particularly to diminish ah, by late march 2021,

russia had begun deploying military equipment and troops along the border with ukraine. in clark, even eastern ukraine, potent still had his supporters as these go. what would have happened if there was no russian army, but as he's got a ukrainian army would have wiped dumbass off the face of the earth? it suddenly dunbar. although elsewhere people were nervous. ah session pitch, it's a very sad situation and in fact, i think guten has plans to repeat 2014 and occupy more of ukraine going to the surprise of so observers putting ended his demonstration of military power on the ukrainian border of summit with president biden fed putins narrative that

russia was still a superpower. emma kind guy, i'm. he made no secret of his cozy. he wants to go back to ya. alta, he wants to go back to zones of inflexible. and that 1st and foremost includes ukraine, of course. okay. but ukraine did have support. he can made 2021. zalinski announced that 30 countries had signed the crimea platform initiative calling for the de occupation of the crime me in peninsula ah, bill declares lincoln took him. when did we say i see blood for the processing? it was a building, but he had a ministry. the crimea platform was similar to the normandy format,

except that russia was absent with that same month, u. s. secretary of state and johnny blink in flu to achieve their he called on russia to stop its reckless and aggressive actions towards ukraine. washington pledged $125000000.00 in military aid while saying it was looking into what would be helpful to ukraine. right now, i will continue to strengthen our security partnership and close collaboration with you to make sure that our ukraine can defend itself against a, against regression. with both the united states remain the key player for both moscow and peeve in russia itself. the use role was seen

as less paramount no more to be does the drop of nero buddhist run. maybe there were some western european countries that wanted something different money keep would you let you follow the americans like little poodles? can you visual? i don't see any european point of view that would distinguish europe from the united states that the child, roku skirt would fridge, under stuff on a visit to berlin. in july 2021, sir lensky made it clear that he wanted the u. s. involved in future talks with russia. yes, view germany and france could not resolve this conflict on their own. at the same times and lensky worried about just how much you support, he could count on the nordstrom to pipeline issue surfaces

repeatedly. washington and keith had previously been united in their objection to the controversial pipeline, then bite him, relented to pressure from berlin, and dropped sanctions against companies involved in the project. generals means we'll just have them give them a 15 or would i understand that the united states is officially saying that 95 percent of the nodes drain pipeline was completed yet before our new administration took office of waiting. ve private, the rosamille, 95 percent is already in place. so what can we do that net dot double double? the answer is clear. it's a simple question of mathematics e, yet you don't allow the remaining 5 percent to be completed in fiscal tow. ah, and if the united states bends under this pressure for you,

then russia has basically achieved its goal gazelle and has shown everyone who the real power broker is on the political math. no help and teaching cut in june 2021, president biden invited zalinski to the white house. washington in berlin, proposed compensating ukraine for revenue, lost to nordstrom to heave, objected, saying that accepting compensation would be tantamount to giving into russia. but it proved to be a losing battle. ringback ringback ringback ringback ringback ah. ringback ringback ringback ringback perceived the issue of nordstrom juice served as a reminder that support for ukraine was conditional. further,

u. s. military aid was put on hold until ukraine could show progress on military reforms. the west would not engage in a direct military confrontation with russia. the you was divided while berlin in paris tried to talk to pigeon eastern european partners, insisted russia change its behavior 1st. ah, and for ukraine, nieto membership seemed a distant prospect. meanwhile, putting showed no sign of leaving crimea or ending support for the pro russian separatists in don bus. peace remained elusive as wind of what bal preteen also a d. i don't see painted a moving from connotation with year after lab to armed contracts. you'll have

a cook ah, ethel c army, but i don't see him backing down in the new client. okay. and seeking a place he. so the kind. ringback she and. ringback ringback ringback ringback had been willing to sacrifice a lot for its independence even when its allies didn't come through for the form of comedian followed him. you're zalinski. the role of president was no laughing matter. with bush the spelling is short, emotional because of the buckle. if you are you sure you want to show this on tv?

i bought the chunk of ships i've learnt a lot. is there was a move show. i realized that i had all that inside me. she said spot when, as for the presidency. but it's complicated along, although it does teach you a lot, a b 11. i did cover mad at she. yeah. but she didn't. 2021. ukraine celebrated 30 years of democracy. what no one knew then just at the ukrainian people and their president would soon show, they were willing to lay down their lives to defend it. ah

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