crimea from ukraine. i spoke with the ukrainian president, petro poroshenko, about that this week. mr. president, welcome. great to see you here in new york city. >> thank you. >> there is a lot of debate over vladmir putin. how are we to understand what you believe his motives are? >> today is a very right time to ask me this question. exactly today, this is five years ago on the 20th of february, we had two very dramatic events in east ukrainian history. first, there was a lunch yan for the illegal annexation to the crimea. putin gives an illegal order to attack ukraine. second, we have a tragic event on the central square of ukraine where pro-putin forces opened fire against the peaceful