cashden, as a high representative of foreign policy. we have been discussing this agreement with ukraine for five years and many years and putin has never opposed this association agreement between the eu and ukraine. he has always said that in principle he is not against ukraine joining the european union, he used to say: "i am against ukraine joining nato, but not to the european union", and i at that time... we believed that we could not grant membership to ukraine, but we could grant the opportunity to sign the association agreement, to sign the political part, and also. the part that related to free trade, and we with several presidents of ukraine and prime ministers, including mr. metsenyuk, we discussed this issue in numerous negotiations, so what happened at the last, last minute in vilnitsa, when i and when mr. rompoi and i met with president yanukovych, he told us that through russia he cannot sign this agreement, and precisely. this and after that came the euromaidan, the uprising of the ukrainian people, the escape of yanukovych and the seizure of crimea. regarding crimea, i