continuing the peace efforts in the country's east until america has just met with our president patrick pichette. ukrainian officials are the two leaders are focused on discussing flashpoint issues including the controversial expansion of a russian gas pipeline and the ongoing conflict in the russian border doesn't that mediated the minsk peace agreement between russia and ukraine three years ago that was has repeatedly been violated. this is how it all started with a handful of people taking to modern square protesting against president in a coach's decision to abandon a long awaited dissociation deal the much the fear of angering moscow within weeks the protests a growing to tens of thousands of people europe wasn't the only issue but the european flags were hard to miss. the protesters had no shortage of prominent guess from brussels showing their support among them the chief diplomat at the time catherine ashton. three months later and present in a coach was gone fleeing to accelerate. just a matter of weeks later and ukraine finally signed the association agreement at over two thousand page