Zelenskys inauguration in may, i believe you testified it was one of the largest delegations . I believe it was. I cant be 100 sure. I believe it was the Largest National delegation. Okay. And included in the delegation was Secretary Perry . Secretary perry, ambassador sondland, myself, senator ron johnson was there and also the charge daffaires at the u. S. Embassy at the time, joe pennington. We talked a little bit this morning, but president zelenskys inauguration came together rather quickly . It did. I believe we had about three days notice in which to put the delegation together. Theres been some discussion whether the Vice President was going to be able to lead that effort and as it turned out he was not able to lead it. Do you have any information as to why the Vice President was unable to join . I dont. And mr. Morrison, do you have any information as to why the
Vice President was unable to participate in the delegation . No. Ambassador volker, you testified during your deposi
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stressed that Moscow has never given up on peace negotiations with Kiev, and that it was the Ukrainian side who withdrew from the talks.
of a russia/ukraine expert, but i think that helped me because i was one of the people before february 24thth saying, why do we think the russian army is any good? when it comes to the military strategic picture in ukraine, one expert who s done a lot of work on this is professor phillips o brien, from the university of st andrews in scotland. it looks like russia occupies one significant swathe of territory. when you look at the map, you see this sort of one arc of territory that is under russian control. logistically, however, that s two pieces. it s not actually connected logistically. things to the west, above crimea, are very hard to supply from the east. so the way they re supplying their troops in the west is through crimea. and that s why they have to keep that supply line open, if they re going to keep their two sort of fronts going. so from the moment the russians came over the border on february 24th, what the ukrainians have done often
council s top ukraine expert at the time. lieutenant colonel, great to see you. we re actually getting to talk about your area of expertise, ukraine. what do you think about what za l zalensky is saying? do you believe him? it wouldn t surprise me. the first thing that came out was he was wanting to assassinate montenegro when he was wanting to join nato, and there was a plot the gru was behind it. it wouldn t surprise me that elements behind the gru are pursuing these types of enabling operations. what they are looking for is to potentially destabilize the government in ukraine while they conduct maybe military offensive. to me the most important thing is there is a situation brewing on the border of ukraine and russia. in a lot of ways, it s a continuation of russia s effort in 2014 that was driven by
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